NOAA National Benthic Inventory

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Kingdom: Animalia
Rank: Genus

Taxonomic Status

Current Standing: valid
Credibility Rating: TWG standards met
Global Species Completeness: complete
Latest Record Review: 1994

Taxonomic Heirarchy

  Family - Janirellidae
  Superfamily - Janiroidea
  Suborder - Asellota
  Order - Isopoda
  Superorder - Peracarida
  Subclass - Eumalacostraca
  Class - Malacostraca
  Subphylum - Crustacea
  Phylum - Arthropoda
  Superphylum - Ecdysozoa
  Infrakingdom - Protostomia
  Subkingdom - Bilateria
  Kingdom - Animalia

      Direct Children

      Subgenus - Janirella (Parjanirella)
      Species - Janirella abyssicola
      Species - Janirella aculeata
      Species - Janirella bicornis
      Species - Janirella bifida
      Species - Janirella bocqueti
      Species - Janirella bonnieri
      Species - Janirella caribbica
      Species - Janirella erostrata
      Species - Janirella eximia
      Species - Janirella extenuata
      Species - Janirella fusiformis
      Species - Janirella glabra
      Species - Janirella hessleri
      Species - Janirella hirsuta
      Species - Janirella laevis
      Species - Janirella latifrons
      Species - Janirella laubieri
      Species - Janirella lobata
      Species - Janirella macrura
      Species - Janirella magnifrons
      Species - Janirella nanseni
      Species - Janirella ornata
      Species - Janirella polychaeta
      Species - Janirella priseri
      Species - Janirella quadrituberculata
      Species - Janirella rotundifrons
      Species - Janirella sedecimtuberculata
      Species - Janirella spinosa
      Species - Janirella spongicola
      Species - Janirella tuberculata
      Species - Janirella vemae