WoRMS taxon details

Mesanthura nigra Müller, 1993

211380  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211380)

  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 nigra (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Mueller, H. G. (1993) The genus Mesanthura Barnard, 1914 from coral reefs in Kenya and Malaysia, with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Anthurida). Mittelungen aus dem Zoologischer Museum in Berlin 1: 19-44. [details] 
Holotype  ZMB 26941, verbatimGeounit Kenya; Watamu-area,...  
Holotype ZMB 26941, verbatimGeounit Kenya; Watamu-area, ... [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. Mesanthura nigra Müller, 1993. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211380 on 2025-06-24
Date
action
by
2001-11-01 11:37:13Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
checked
Schotte, Marilyn
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z
changed
Poore, Gary C.B.

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Nomenclature

original description Mueller, H. G. (1993) The genus Mesanthura Barnard, 1914 from coral reefs in Kenya and Malaysia, with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Anthurida). Mittelungen aus dem Zoologischer Museum in Berlin 1: 19-44. [details] 

basis of record Kensley, B. & M. Schotte (2000). New species and records of anthuridean crustaceans from the Indian Ocean. Journal of Natural History 34: 2057-2121. [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 
   

Holotype ZMB 26941, verbatimGeounit Kenya; Watamu-area, ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal [details]
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