Species Accalathura gigantissima Kussakin, 1967
- Accalathura gigantissima Kussakin, O.G. 1967. Fauna of Isopoda and Tanaidacea in the coastal zones of the Antarctic and Subantarctic waters. Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions 3: 220-389 [translation from Russian by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1968] [253].
Type data:
Holotype (repository not given), off coast of Antarctica, no precise locality given (as "Ob" station 138).
Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown.
Distribution
States
Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Antarctic coast (60°–150°E).
IMCRA
Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Tas. Coast
- Tasmania
Ecological Descriptors
Abyssal, continental shelf, marine.
General References
Poore, G.C.B. 1981. Paranthurid isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Anthuridea) from southeastern Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 42: 57-88 (misidentifications as Accalathura gigas (Whitelegge, 1901))
Wägele, J.W. 1985. Observations on nutrition and ultrastructure of digestive tract and fat body of the giant paranthurid Accalathura gigantissima Kussakin. Polar Biology 4: 33-43 (feeding biology and anatomy)
History of changes
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