WoRMS taxon details
Amakusanthura magnifica (Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966)
255365 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255365)
accepted
Species
Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966) Menzies, R. J. and Frankenberg, D. (1966) Handbook on the Common Marine Isopod Crustacea of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 93 pp. [details]
Holotype (of Apanthura magnifica Menzies &...
Holotype (of Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966) USNM 111073, verbatimGeounit USA. Off Georgia. St... [details]
Depth range 7-137
Depth range 7-137 [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. Amakusanthura magnifica (Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255365 on 2025-10-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966) Menzies, R. J. and Frankenberg, D. (1966) Handbook on the Common Marine Isopod Crustacea of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 93 pp. [details]
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]
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]
Other
context source (Bermuda)
Kensley, B. (1994) Records of shallow-water marine isopods from Bermuda with descriptions of four new species. Journal of Crustacean Biology 14(2): 319-336. [details]
additional source Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966) USNM 111073, verbatimGeounit USA. Off Georgia. St... [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 7-137 [details]
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (132 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (140 records) (from synonym Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 111073) (from synonym Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (132 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (140 records) (from synonym Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 111073) (from synonym Apanthura magnifica Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966)
To ITIS
