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Acanthaspidiidae Menzies 1962

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Family Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962

Remarks.– For discussion on the family see Brandt (1991), Just (2001) and Poore & Lew Ton (2002). Brandt (1991) provides details and a key to separate the genera Acanthaspidia and Ianthopsis. There are differing opinions as to the spelling of the family name. I am of the opinion that the stem is Acanthaspidi– (by removal of the feminine genitive ending of the type genus name), and therefore the spelling is Acanthaspidiidae. This is also the prevailing usage in recent years (Brandt 1991; Just 2001; Martin & Davis 2001; Poore & Lew Ton 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Bruce, Niel L., 2004, Mexicope sushara sp. nov., the first New Zealand record of the isopod crustacean family Acanthaspidiidae (Asellota), pp. 1-11 in Zootaxa 489 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157599

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Biodiversity

Family
Acanthaspidiidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Isopoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Menzies
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962 sec. Bruce, 2004

References

  • Brandt, A. (1991) A revision of the Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962 (Isopoda: Asellota). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 102, 203 - 252.
  • Just, J. (2001) New species of Mexicope, stat. nov. and Ianthopsis from Australia and a rediagnosis of Acanthaspidiidae (Isopoda: Asellota). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 15 (6), 909 - 925.
  • Poore, G. C. B. & Lew Ton, H. M. (2002) Suborder Asellota Latreille, 1802. In: Poore, G. C. B. (Ed.) Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida and Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea (Series Eds, Houston, W. W. K. & P. L. Beesley; Zoological Catalogue of Australia), Vol. 19.2 A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 32 - 61.
  • Martin, J. W. & Davis, G. E. (2001) An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series, 39, i - viii, 1 - 124.