''Dynoides elegans'' is a species of

isopod Isopoda is an Order (biology), order of crustaceans. Members of this group are called isopods and include both Aquatic animal, aquatic species and Terrestrial animal, terrestrial species such as woodlice. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons ...

crustacean Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...

in the genus ''

Dynoides ''Dynoides'' is a genus of marine isopods in the family Sphaeromatidae. Species The genus contains the following species: * '' Dynoides amblysinus'' (Pillai, 1954) * ''Dynoides artocanalis'' Nunomura, 1997 * ''Dynoides barnardii'' Baker, 19 ...

''. It was originally described in 1923 by

Pearl Lee Boone Pearl Lee Boone (c. 1895/1896 –1954) was an invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She was one of the more infamous Carcinology, carcinologists of her time, as her career was fraught with claims of in ...

as "''Cianella elegans''" based on specimens from

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(home of the

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) and

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. It was transferred to the genus ''

'' in 2000, when Boone's genus was sunk into

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with ''Dynoides''.

References

elegans Crustaceans of the eastern Pacific Ocean Crustaceans described in 1923 {{isopod-stub