WoRMS taxon details
Accalathura gigas (Whitelegge, 1901)
213005 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213005)
accepted
Species
Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901) Whitelegge, T. (1901). Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" on the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Crustacea. Part II. Isopoda. Part I. <em>Australian Museum Memoir.</em> 4 (3): 203-246. [details] 
Lectotype (of Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901) AM...
Lectotype (of Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901) AM G2197 (part), verbatimGeounit Australia. off Port ... [details]
Depth range 8-83
Depth range 8-83 [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accalathura gigas (Whitelegge, 1901). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213005 on 2025-10-08
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901) Whitelegge, T. (1901). Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" on the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Crustacea. Part II. Isopoda. Part I. <em>Australian Museum Memoir.</em> 4 (3): 203-246. [details]
basis of record Barnard, K.H. (1925). A Revision of the Family Anthuridae (Crustacea Isopoda), with Remarks on certain Morphological Peculiarities. Journ. Limn. Soc (London) (Zool.) 36: 109-160. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Barnard, K.H. (1925). A Revision of the Family Anthuridae (Crustacea Isopoda), with Remarks on certain Morphological Peculiarities. Journ. Limn. Soc (London) (Zool.) 36: 109-160. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
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
Lectotype (of Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901) AM G2197 (part), verbatimGeounit Australia. off Port ... [details]
Paralectotype (of Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901) AM G2197 (part) [details]
Syntype (of Calathura gigas Whitelegge, 1901) AM G2197, verbatimGeounit Australia. off Port ... [details]
