Elthusa

Elthusa
Elthusa xena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Family:	Cymothoidae
Genus:	Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884

Elthusa is a genus of isopods in the family Cymothoidae, with 40 described species. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Elthusa: ^[4]

• Elthusa acutinasa Van der Wal, Smit & Hadfield, 2019
• Elthusa alvaradoensis Rocha-Ramírez, Chávez-López & Bruce, 2005
• Elthusa arnoglossi Trilles & Justine, 2006
• Elthusa atlantniroi (Kononenko, 1988)
• Elthusa californica (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
• Elthusa caudata (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
• Elthusa emarginata (Bleeker, 1857)
• Elthusa epimerias (Richardson, 1909)
• Elthusa epinepheli Trilles & Justine, 2010
• Elthusa fistularia Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Trilles, 2020
• Elthusa foveolata (Hansen, 1897)
• Elthusa frontalis (Richardson, 1910)
• Elthusa menziesi (Brusca, 1981)
• Elthusa methepia (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
• Elthusa moritakii Saito & Yamauchi, 2016
• Elthusa myripristae Bruce, 1990
• Elthusa nanoides (Stebbing, 1905)
• Elthusa neocytta (Avdeev, 1975)
• Elthusa nierstraszi Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2016
• Elthusa ochotensis (Kussakin, 1979)
• Elthusa parabothi Trilles & Justine, 2004
• Elthusa parva (Richardson, 1910)
• Elthusa philippinensis (Richardson, 1910)
• Elthusa poutassouiensis (Penso, 1939)
• Elthusa propinqua (Richardson, 1904)
• Elthusa pseudorhombus Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Trilles, 2020
• Elthusa raynaudii (H. Milne Edwards, 1840)
• Elthusa rotunda Van der Wal, Smit & Hadfield, 2019
• Elthusa sacciger (Richardson, 1909)
• Elthusa samariscii (Shiino, 1951)
• Elthusa samoensis (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
• Elthusa sigani Bruce, 1990
• Elthusa sinuata (Koelbel, 1879)
• Elthusa splendida (Sadowsky & Moreira, 1981)
• Elthusa tropicalis (Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
• Elthusa turgidula (Hale, 1926)
• Elthusa uranoscopus Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Trilles, 2020
• Elthusa vulgaris (Stimpson, 1857)
• Elthusa winstoni Hadfield, Tuttle & Smit, 2017
• Elthusa xena Van der Wal, Smit & Hadfield, 2019

References

1. "Elthusa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Elthusa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Elthusa genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-06-21.

Further reading

• Bruce, Niel L. (1990). "The Genera Catoessa, Elthusa, Enispa, Ichthyoxenus, Idusa, Livoneca, and Norileca n.gen. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), Crustacean Parasites of Marine Fishes, with Descriptions of Eastern Australian Species" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 42 (3): 247–300. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.42.1990.118.