Elthusa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Isopoda
Cladus: Scutocoxifera
Subordo: Cymothoida
Superfamilia: Cymothooidea

Familia: Cymothoidae
Genus: Elthusa
Species (32): E. acutinasa – E. alvaradoensis – E. arnoglossi – E. atlantniroi – E. californica – E. caudata – E. emarginata – E. epinepheli – E. foveolata – E. frontalis – E. menziesi – E. methepia – E. myripristae – E. nanoides – E. neocytta – E. nierstraszi – E. ochotensis – E. parabothi – Elthusa parva E. philippinensis – E. propinqua – E. raynaudii – E. rotunda – E. sacciger – E. samariscii – E. samoensis – E. sigani – E. splendida – E. tropicalis – E. turgidula – E. vulgaris – E. winstoni – E. xena

[source: WoRMS]
Name

Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
References

Hadfield, K.A., Bruce, N.L. & Smit, N.J. 2016. Elthusa nierstraszi nom. n., the replacement name for Elthusa parva (Nierstrasz, 1915), a junior secondary homonym of Elthusa parva (Richardson, 1910) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae). ZooKeys 619: 167–170. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.619.10143. Reference page.
Hadfield, K.A., Tuttle, L.J. & Smit, N.J. 2017. Elthusa winstoni sp. n. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a new fish parasitic isopod from Hawaii. ZooKeys 661: 125—135. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.661.11251. Reference page.
Schioedte, J. C. & Meinert, F. W.: 1884 Symbolae ad Monographiam Cymothoarum Crustaceorum Isopodum Familiae. IV. Cymothoidae. Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift series III, XIV: 221–454, pls VI (Cym. XXIV)-XVIII (Cym. XXXVI).
van der Wal, S., Haug, J.T. 2020. Shape of attachment structures in parasitic isopodan crustaceans: the influence of attachment site and ontogeny. PeerJ. 8:e9181. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9181 Open access Reference page.
van der Wal, S., Smit, N.J. & Hadfield, K.A. 2019. Review of the fish parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species. Zookeys, 841: 1–37. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.841.32364 Reference page.

Elthusa is a genus of isopods in the family Cymothoidae, with more than 30 described species.[1][2][3]
Species

These 32 species belong to the genus Elthusa:

Elthusa alvaradoensis Rocha-Ramírez, Chávez-López & Bruce, 2005
Elthusa arnoglossi Trilles & Justine, 2006
Elthusa atlantniroi (Kononenko, 1988A)
Elthusa californica (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
Elthusa caudata (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
Elthusa emarginata (Bleeker, 1857)
Elthusa epinepheli Trilles & Justine, 2010
Elthusa foveolata (Hansen, 1897)
Elthusa frontalis (Richardson, 1910A)
Elthusa menziesi (R. C. Brusca, 1981)
Elthusa methepia (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
Elthusa moritakii Nobuhiro Saito & Takeo 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 (Nierstrasz, 1915)
Elthusa philippinensis (Richardson, 1910A
Elthusa propinqua (Richardson, 1904A)
Elthusa raynaudii (H. Milne-Edwards, 1840)
Elthusa sacciger (Richardson, 1909A)
Elthusa samariscii (Shiino, 1951A)
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 vulgaris (Stimpson, 1857)
Elthusa winstoni Hadfield, Tuttle & Smit, 2017

References

"Elthusa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Elthusa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Elthusa genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.