Isopoda taxon details
Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962
118247 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118247)
accepted
Family
Acanthaspidia Stebbing, 1893 accepted as Iolanthe Beddard, 1886 (type by original designation)
Acanthaspidae Menzies, 1962 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
- Genus Ianthopsis Beddard, 1886
- Genus Iolanthe Beddard, 1886
- Genus Mexicope Hooker, 1985
- Genus Acanthaspidia Stebbing, 1893 accepted as Iolanthe Beddard, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Acanthoniscus G. O. Sars, 1879 accepted as Acanthaspidia Stebbing, 1893 accepted as Iolanthe Beddard, 1886 (unaccepted > junior homonym, junior homonym of Acanthoniscus Gosse, 1851 [Isopoda])
- Genus Exacanthaspidia Menzies & Schultz, 1968 accepted as Iolanthe Beddard, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Janthe Bovallius, 1881 accepted as Ianthopsis Beddard, 1886 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, incorrect subsequent spelling of Ianthe Bovallius, 1881; not synonymous with Ianthe)
- Genus Paracanthaspidia Menzies & Schultz, 1968 accepted as Iolanthe Beddard, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Acanthaspidae Menzies, 1962) Menzies, R. J. (1962). The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Vema Research Series.</em> 1: 79-206., available online at http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/19789/19789.pdf [details] Available for editors 
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. (Eds) (2024). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118247 on 2025-04-04
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original description
(of Acanthaspidae Menzies, 1962) Menzies, R. J. (1962). The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Vema Research Series.</em> 1: 79-206., available online at http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/19789/19789.pdf [details] Available for editors
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]
additional source Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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]
redescription Just, J. (2001). New species of Mexicope, stat. nov. and Ianthopsis from Australia and a rediagnosis of Acanthaspidiidae (Isopoda. <em>Asellota). Invertebrate Taxonomy.</em> 15: 909-925., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/IT00037 [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]
additional source Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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]
redescription Just, J. (2001). New species of Mexicope, stat. nov. and Ianthopsis from Australia and a rediagnosis of Acanthaspidiidae (Isopoda. <em>Asellota). Invertebrate Taxonomy.</em> 15: 909-925., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/IT00037 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
