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Mesanthura looensis Kensley & Schotte, 1987

258342  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:258342)

  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. Anthuridae (Family)
  13. Mesanthura (Genus)
  14. Mesanthura looensis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kensley, B.; Schotte, M. (1987). New records of isopod Crustacea from the Caribbean, the Florida keys, and the Bahamas. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(1): 216-247. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  USNM 211406, verbatimGeounit USA, Looe Key,...  
Holotype USNM 211406, verbatimGeounit USA, Looe Key, Flor... [details]
Depth range 1  
Depth range 1 [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. Mesanthura looensis Kensley & Schotte, 1987. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=258342 on 2025-05-09
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.; Schotte, M. (1987). New records of isopod Crustacea from the Caribbean, the Florida keys, and the Bahamas. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(1): 216-247. [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] 

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 
   

Holotype USNM 211406, verbatimGeounit USA, Looe Key, Flor... [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 1 [details]

Specimen paratypes also: USNM [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 211406) 
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