WoRMS taxon details
Elthusa tropicalis (Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
256801 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256801)
accepted
Species
Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983) Menzies, R. J.; Kruczynski, W. L. (1983). Isopod Crustacea (Exclusive of Epicaridea. <em>Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises.</em> 6(1): 1-126. [details] Available for editors 
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Note Gulf of Mexico
type locality Gulf of Mexico [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. Elthusa tropicalis (Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256801 on 2025-09-25
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983) Menzies, R. J.; Kruczynski, W. L. (1983). Isopod Crustacea (Exclusive of Epicaridea. <em>Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises.</em> 6(1): 1-126. [details] Available for editors [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]
[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]
Other
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
From editor or global species database
type locality Gulf of Mexico [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (6 records) (from synonym Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 170807) (from synonym Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
To ITIS
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (6 records) (from synonym Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 170807) (from synonym Lironeca tropicalis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
To ITIS
