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Genus of crustaceans For uses of the acronym, see IAIS (disambiguation).

Iais
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Janiridae
Genus: Iais
Bovallius, 1886 
Type species
Jaera pubescens
Dana, 1853

Iais is a genus of isopod crustaceans. Iais species are found in association with larger isopods of the family Sphaeromatidae, usually on the ventral surface of the larger animal, between the pereiopods and on the pleopods. They are native to Australasia and South America, although Iais californica and its host Sphaeroma quoyanum have invaded California, and I. californica was first described from Sausalito, California.

Species

Eight species are recognised:

References

  1. "Iais". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. D. E. Hurley (1955). "The New Zealand species of Iais (Crustacea Isopoda)". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 83 (4): 715–719.
  3. George Rotramel (1972). "Iais californica and Sphaeroma quoyanum, two symbiotic isopods introduced to California (Isopoda, Janiridae and Sphaeromatidae)" (PDF). Crustaceana. Suppl. 3: 193–197. JSTOR 25027422.
  4. Boyko, Christopher B. (2023). Schotte M, Boyko CB, Bruce NL, Poore GC, Taiti S, Wilson GD (eds.). "Iais". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
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