Anuropus

Anuropus is a genus of isopods in the suborder Cymothoida. As of 2021^[update], it is the only genus in the family Anuropidae.^[1]

Anuropus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Family:	Anuropidae Stebbing, 1893[1]
Genus:	Anuropus Beddard, 1886[2]
Type species
Anuropus branchiatus Beddard, 1886

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]

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

References

1. "Anuropidae Stebbing, 1893". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2008. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
2. Beddard, Frank E. (1886). "Preliminary Notice of the Isopoda collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger.'—Part III". Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London. 54 (1) (published Jun 1, 1886): 112–114. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1886.tb00542.x.
3. Beddard, Frank Evers (1886). "Report on the Isopoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Part II". In Thomason, C. Wyville; Murray, John (eds.). Zoology—Pt. XLVIII. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Vol. 17. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 152–156, Pl. VII, figs. 1–5.
4. Stebbing, Thomas R. R. (1893). "Isopoda with a caudal fan, a vast and varied tribe". A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca. New York: D. Appleton. p. 345.
5. Hansen, H. J. (1903). "The Deep-Sea Isopod Anuropus branchiatus, Bedd., and some Remarks on Bathynomus giganteus, A. M.-Edw". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 29 (187). 12–19, Pl. 4, figs. 1–7. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1903.tb00423.x.
6. Schotte M, Boyko CB, Bruce NL, Poore GC, Taiti S, Wilson GD, eds. (2008). "Anuropus Beddard, 1886". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
7. Jansen, K. P. (1982). "Anuropus novaezealandiae, a new species of Anuropodidae (Isopoda: Flabellifera) from New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 12 (2): 181–187. doi:10.1080/03036758.1982.10419439.