Norman, 1867

Description:
Body slender and elongated. Carapace compressed laterally and with a mid-dorsal carina. Pseudorostrum prominent. First pereion somite free from carapace. Pereiopod 2 with the basis and ischium fused. Endopod of uropod with two segments, the distal usually the longer.
Carapace in both sexes with the mid-dorsal crest bearing 8-20 teeth, starting just behind the eyelobe and continuing in diminishing size to near the hind end. The pseudorostrum is very long. Antenna 1 with two aesthetascs. The sternite of pereionite 2 in the adult male is armed with three tubercles, each with a bifid extremity, of which the median is usually the largest. There are no spurs on the bases of pereiopods 2. Pleonite 6 has four setae at its hind end.
No free telson.

Size:
Up to 12 mm.

Habitat:
Found on muddy sand, normally in somewhat deeper water.

Depth range:
Down from 30-150 metres.

Distribution in the North Sea:
Occurs possibly in the northern North Sea.

World distribution:
Recorded from the Shetland Islands, the Irish Sea, south-west Ireland, and from the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean.

Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Subclass Eumalacostraca
Superorder Peracarida
Order Cumacea
Family Bodotriidae
Genus Iphinoe
Species serrata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Iphinoe serrata Norman, 1867

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species

Jones, N.S., 1957a. Cumacea. Key to families and references. Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 71 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen.

Jones, N.S., 1957b. Cumacea. Figures (covering sheets 71 and 73-76). Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 72 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen.

Jones, N.S., 1957c. Cumacea. Family: Bodotriidae. Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 73 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen.

Jones, N.S., 1976. British Cumaceans. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), No. 7. The Linnean Society/Academic Press, London.

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