African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Astacilla Cordiner, 1793

AphiaID

118445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118445)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Astacillidae Stebbing, 1905

Parent

Arcturidae Dana, 1849

Original name

Astacilla Cordiner, 1793

Synonymised names

Agularcturus Kensley, 1984 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Arcturella G. O. Sars, 1897 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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Species Astacilla brevipes (Barnard, 1920)
Species Astacilla corniger (Stebbing, 1873)
Species Astacilla dollfusi (Monod, 1925)
Species Astacilla eminentia Kensley, 1984
Species Astacilla gorgonophila Monod, 1925
Species Astacilla lineata (Stebbing, 1873)
Species Astacilla lobulata (Barnard, 1925)
Species Astacilla longipes (Barnard, 1920)
Species Astacilla longispina (Kensley, 1978)
Species Astacilla mediterranea Koehler, 1911
Species Astacilla monodi Tattersall, 1925
Species Astacilla pustulata (Barnard, 1920)
Species Astacilla tranquilla (Kensley, 1975)
Species Astacilla bacillus Barnard, 1920 accepted as Neastacilla bacillus (Barnard, 1920) (superseded original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Cordiner, C. (1793). Remarkable ruins, and romantic prospects, of North Britain. With ancient monuments, and singular subjects of natural history. Peter Mazell, London. 96 plates with letterpress. [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Astacilla Cordiner, 1793. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118445 on 2026-10-04

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Astacilla Cordiner, 1793. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118445 on 2026-10-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2007-11-28 15:20:16Z

checked

Schotte, Marilyn

2009-02-20 10:38:06Z

changed

Poore, Gary C.B.

2023-03-14 04:09:43Z

changed

Poore, Gary C.B.

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original description Cordiner, C. (1793). Remarkable ruins, and romantic prospects, of North Britain. With ancient monuments, and singular subjects of natural history. Peter Mazell, London. 96 plates with letterpress. [details]

original description (of Agularcturus Kensley, 1984) Kensley, B. (1984). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude cruises. Part 15. Marine Isopoda of the 1977, 1978, 1979 cruises. Annals of the South African Museum. 93(4): 213-301. [details] Available for editors

original description (of Arcturella G. O. Sars, 1897) Sars, G. O. (1896-1899). An account of the Crustacea of Norway with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Volume II. Isopoda. Bergen Museum, Bergen. i-x + 1-270, pls. 1-104., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32173012 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [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]

new combination reference Poore, G.C.B. (2026). Chapter 10. Suborder Valvifera. In: Poore, G.C.B. (ed.) Marine Crustacea Isopoda: guide to families and genera of the world. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 86: 433-476., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2026.86.10
page(s): 446; note: synonymy of Agularcturus and Arcturella [details]

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