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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

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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.

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.

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