Genus Iolanthe Beddard, 1886

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• Iolanthe Beddard, F.E. 1886. Preliminary notice of the Isopoda collected during the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", Part III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1886: 97-122 [104].

  Type species:

   Iolanthe acanthonotus Beddard, 1886 by monotypy.
• Acanthoniscus White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) viii 141 pp. [55] [nom. nud.].
• Acanthoniscus Sars, G.O. 1879. Crustacea et Pycnogonida nova in itinere 2-do et 3-tio Expeditionis norvegicae anno 1877 et 78 collecta. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, Kristiania 4: 427-476 [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Acanthoniscus typhlops Sars, 1897 by monotypy.
• Acanthaspidia Stebbing, T.R.R. 1893. A History of Crustacea. Recent Malacostraca. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. xvii 466 pp. [378] [nom. nov. for Acanthoniscus Sars, 1879].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stebbing, T.R.R. 1893. A History of Crustacea. Recent Malacostraca. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. xvii 466 pp. [378]
• Merrin, K.L. & Poore, G.C.B. 2015. Nomenclatural changes in two families of asellote isopods (Acanthaspidiidae and Ischnomesidae). Zootaxa 4013: 139-142 [140]

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ACANTHASPIDIIDAE: Acanthaspidia drygalskii Vanhöffen, 1914 — Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp. (undescribed species misidentified by <45603>)

ACANTHASPIDIIDAE: Acanthaspidia drygalskii Vanhöffen, 1914

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Antarctic and Subantarctic waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	PERACARIDA Calman, 1904	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Lauren Timms (NMV) Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV)
22-Feb-2022	ASELLOTA Latreille, 1802	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
16-Jun-2016	ASELLOTA Latreille, 1802	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	ISOPODA Latreille, 1817	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED