''Curassanthura'' is a genus of
isopod
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...
s in the family
Leptanthuridae
The Leptanthuridae are a family of isopod crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, co ...
. It contains the following species:
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Curassanthura bermudensis
''Curassanthura bermudensis'' is a species of isopod crustacean in the family Leptanthuridae, endemic to Bermuda. It was described in 1985 by Johann Wägele and Angelika Brandt on the basis of a single immature specimen. This holotype specimen, ...
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Wägele & Brandt, 1985
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Curassanthura canariensis
''Curassanthura'' is a genus of isopod crustaceans in the family Leptanthuridae
The Leptanthuridae are a family of isopod crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods ...
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Wägele, 1985
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Curassanthura halma''
Kensley, 1981
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Curassanthura jamaicensis''
Kensley, 1992
References
Cymothoida
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