Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Igene illex
ETYMOLOGY.—From the Latin illex (contrary to law, lawless).
HOLOTYPE.—Undissected adult female in alcohol in the collection of the Museum of Victoria.
TYPE LOCALITY.—Slope 6, 34°51.90′S, 151°12.60′E, New South Wales, off Nowra; depth 770 m.
PARATYPES.—Slope 6: ovigerous female on slide and in alcohol. Slope 53: USNM 194008, A–1 male on slide and in alcohol; 1 instar I in alcohol; 2 late instars in alcohol.
DISTRIBUTION.—Slope 6, 770 m. Slope 53, 996 m.
DISTRIBUTION.—The genus is cosmopolitan; members have been collected at shelf and slope depths (intertidal to 1264 m).
- bibliographic citation
- Kornicker, Louis S. 1995. "Ostracoda (Myodocopina) of the SE Australian Continental slope, Part 2." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-97. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.562
