WoRMS taxon details

Elthusa sigani Bruce, 1990

256799  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256799)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Cymothoida (Suborder)
  11. Cymothooidea (Superfamily)
  12. Cymothoidae (Family)
  13. Elthusa (Genus)
  14. Elthusa sigani (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bruce, N. L. (1990) The genera <i>Catoessa</i>, <i>Elthusa</i>, <i>Enispa</i>, <i>Ichthyoxenus</i>, <i>Idusa</i>, <i>Livoneca</i>, and <i>Norileca</i> n. gen. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes, with descriptions of eastern Australian species. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 247-300. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note Queensland, Australia  
type locality Queensland, Australia [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Elthusa sigani Bruce, 1990. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256799 on 2025-05-06
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
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Schotte, Marilyn

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Nomenclature

original description Bruce, N. L. (1990) The genera <i>Catoessa</i>, <i>Elthusa</i>, <i>Enispa</i>, <i>Ichthyoxenus</i>, <i>Idusa</i>, <i>Livoneca</i>, and <i>Norileca</i> n. gen. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes, with descriptions of eastern Australian species. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 247-300. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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type locality Queensland, Australia [details]
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