WoRMS taxon details

Curassanthura halma Kensley, 1981

255541  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255541)

  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. Anthuroidea (Superfamily)
  12. Leptanthuridae (Family)
  13. Curassanthura (Genus)
  14. Curassanthura halma (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kensley, B. (1981) Amsterdam Expeditions to the West Indian Islands, Report 10. Curassanthura halma, a new genus and species of interstitial isopod from Curacao, West Indies (Crustacea: Isopoda: Paranthuridae). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 51 (1): 131- 134. [details] 
Holotype  ZMA Is. 105, 157, verbatimGeounit Curacao,...  
Holotype ZMA Is. 105, 157, verbatimGeounit Curacao, Piscadera B... [details]
Depth range intertidal  
Depth range intertidal [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. Curassanthura halma Kensley, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255541 on 2025-08-24
Date
action
by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z
changed
Poore, Gary C.B.

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Nomenclature

original description Kensley, B. (1981) Amsterdam Expeditions to the West Indian Islands, Report 10. Curassanthura halma, a new genus and species of interstitial isopod from Curacao, West Indies (Crustacea: Isopoda: Paranthuridae). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 51 (1): 131- 134. [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] 

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

Holotype ZMA Is. 105, 157, verbatimGeounit Curacao, Piscadera B... [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal [details]

Specimen paratypes also: ZMA, USNM [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ Curassanthura halma) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) 
To ITIS
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