WoRMS taxon details
Neohyssura Amar, 1953
118300 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118300)
accepted
Genus
Hyssura spinicauda Walker, 1901 accepted as Neohyssura spinicauda (Walker, 1901) (type by original designation)
Horolanthura Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Horoloanthura Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Neohyssura Amar, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118300 on 2026-09-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Amar, R. (1953). Isopodes marins du littoral corse. <em>Bulletin de Société Zoologique de France.</em> 77: 349-355. [details] Available for editors 
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original description (of Horoloanthura Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966) Menzies, R. J. and Frankenberg, D. (1966) Handbook on the Common Marine Isopod Crustacea of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 93 pp. [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
[request]original description (of Horoloanthura Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966) Menzies, R. J. and Frankenberg, D. (1966) Handbook on the Common Marine Isopod Crustacea of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 93 pp. [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Boury-Esnault, N.; Bellan, G.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Boudouresque, C.-F.; Chevaldonné, P.; Dias, A.; Faget, D.; Harmelin, J.-G.; Harmelin-Vivien, M.; Lejeusne, C.; Pérez, T.; Vacelet, J.; Verlaque, M. (2023). The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5249(2): 213-252. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.3 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kensley, B. & M. Schotte (2000). New species and records of anthuridean crustaceans from the Indian Ocean. Journal of Natural History 34: 2057-2121., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/002229300750022358 [details]
additional source Poore, G. C. B. and Lew Ton, H. M. (1988). A generic review of the Hyssuridae (Crustacea: Isopoda) with a new genus and new species from Australia. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria.</em> 49(1): 169-193., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1988.49.11 [details]
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]
[request]additional source Kensley, B. & M. Schotte (2000). New species and records of anthuridean crustaceans from the Indian Ocean. Journal of Natural History 34: 2057-2121., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/002229300750022358 [details]
additional source Poore, G. C. B. and Lew Ton, H. M. (1988). A generic review of the Hyssuridae (Crustacea: Isopoda) with a new genus and new species from Australia. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria.</em> 49(1): 169-193., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1988.49.11 [details]
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 Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
