This species honors the late Addison Emery Verrill of Yale University, whose early contributions to our understanding of the fauna of the Bermuda Islands remain unsurpassed today.
Yabut, M. G.; Sawicki, T. R. (2015). Idunella verrilli, a New Species of Subterranean Crustacean (Amphipoda: Gammaridea: Liljeborgiidae) from Green Bay Cave, Bermuda. <em>Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.</em> 56(2): 245-253. Available for editors [request]