WoRMS name details
Venezanthura confixa Kensley, 1978
293313 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293313)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
Venezanthura Kensley, 1978 accepted as Cortezura Schultz, 1977
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Holotype USNM 171226, verbatimGeounit Venezuela,...
Holotype USNM 171226, verbatimGeounit Venezuela, Cubagua I... [details]
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. Venezanthura confixa Kensley, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293313 on 2026-08-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Kensley, B. (1978). Five new genera of anthurid isopod crustaceans. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 91(3): 775-792. [details] Available for editors 
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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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 171226, verbatimGeounit Venezuela, Cubagua I... [details]
