Deep-Sea taxon details
Neoarcturus ornatus (Kensley, 1975)
258005 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:258005)
accepted
Species
Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) Kensley, B. (1975). Marine Isopoda from the continental shelf of South Africa. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 67(4): 35-89. [details] Available for editors 
Holotype (of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) SAfM...
Holotype (of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) SAfM A13546, verbatimGeounit South Africa, Still ... [details]
Depth range 150-700
distribution Agulhas Bank and Transkei, South Africa
Depth range 150-700 [details]
distribution Agulhas Bank and Transkei, South Africa
distribution Agulhas Bank and Transkei, South Africa [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Neoarcturus ornatus (Kensley, 1975). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=258005 on 2026-01-10
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Neoarcturus ornatus (Kensley, 1975). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=258005 on 2026-01-10
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(of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) Kensley, B. (1975). Marine Isopoda from the continental shelf of South Africa. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 67(4): 35-89. [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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 Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975) SAfM A13546, verbatimGeounit South Africa, Still ... [details]
