Iais elongata

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Iais elongata is a species of brackish isopod, found on Inaccessible Island.{{Cite WoRMS|author=Schotte, Marilyn|year=2008|title=Iais elongata Sivertsen & Holthuis, 1980|id=258052|db=isopoda}}

Description

It has a long and narrow body, being around 4 times wider than it is long. It gradually widens from the first to the last pereonite and it is covered in short, widely spaced hair.{{Cite journal |last=Sivertsen |first=E. |last2=Holthuis |first2=L. B. |year=1980 |title=The marine isopod Crustacea of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago |journal=Gunneria |volume=35 |pages=1-128}}

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Category:Crustaceans described in 1980

Category:Asellota

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