WoRMS name details
Austranthura elegans Kussakin, 1967
293351 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293351)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Austranthura Kussakin, 1967 accepted as Ananthura Barnard, 1925
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Holotype ZIL 1/46688, verbatimGeounit Australia....
Holotype ZIL 1/46688, verbatimGeounit Australia. region of... [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. Austranthura elegans Kussakin, 1967. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293351 on 2026-07-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Kussakin, O. G. (1967). Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958). Isopoda and Tanaidacea from the coastal zones of the Antarctic and subantarctic. <em>Isseldovaniia Fauny Morei.</em> 4(12): 220-380. [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 ZIL 1/46688, verbatimGeounit Australia. region of... [details]
