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Anuropus
Genus of crustaceans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anuropus is a genus of isopods in the suborder Cymothoida. As of 2021[update], it is the only genus in the family Anuropidae.[1]
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Taxonomic history
The genus Anuropus was first circumscribed by the English zoologist Frank Evers Beddard in 1886. His new genus coincided with his description of the type species, A. branchiatus.[3][2] Beddard placed Anuropus in the family Cymothoidae, but in 1893, Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing wrote it "may have greater claims to be the type of a distinct family, Anuropidæ".[4] In 1903, Hans Jacob Hansen thought Anuropus might possibly belong to the subfamily Cirolaninae or perhaps a new subfamily Anuropinae.[5]
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Species
As of 2021[update], World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following ten species in this genus:[6]
- A. aeronautus Sivertsen & Holthuis, 1980
- A. antarcticus Hale, 1952
- A. australis Schultz, 1977
- A. bathypelagicus Menzies & Dow, 1958
- A. branchiatus Beddard, 1886
- A. kussakini Vasina, 1998
- A. novaezealandiae Jansen, 1981[7]
- A. pacificus Lincoln & Jones, 1973
- A. panteni Brandt & Retzlaff, 2002
- A. sanguineus Nunomura, 1983
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References
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