WoRMS taxon details

Neoarcturus ornatus (Kensley, 1975)

258005  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:258005)

  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. Valvifera (Suborder)
  11. Holidoteidae (Family)
  12. Neoarcturus (Genus)
  13. Neoarcturus ornatus (Species)
accepted
Species
Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) Kensley, B. (1975). Marine Isopoda from the continental shelf of South Africa. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 67(4): 35-89. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  (of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) SAfM...  
Holotype (of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) SAfM A13546, verbatimGeounit South Africa, Still ... [details]
Depth range 150-700  
Depth range 150-700 [details]

distribution Agulhas Bank and Transkei, South Africa  
distribution Agulhas Bank and Transkei, South Africa [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. Neoarcturus ornatus (Kensley, 1975). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=258005 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 (of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) Kensley, B. (1975). Marine Isopoda from the continental shelf of South Africa. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 67(4): 35-89. [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

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

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

Holotype (of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) SAfM A13546, verbatimGeounit South Africa, Still ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 150-700 [details]

distribution Agulhas Bank and Transkei, South Africa [details]
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