Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Asellota > Superfamily Janiroidea > Family Acanthaspidiidae

Iolanthe Beddard, 1886

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthoniscus*	G. O. Sars, 1879	junior homonym
*Acanthaspidia*	Stebbing, 1893	synonym

Children

Iolanthe decorata Hansen, 1895
Iolanthe laevis (Chardy, 1975)
Iolanthe typhlops (G. O. Sars, 1879)

Literature

original description	Beddard, F. 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. 1886(1): 97-122.
basis of record	Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 41: 47-114.
additional source	Biosis; Index To Organism Names
source of synonymy	Merrin, K. L. and Poore, G. C. B. (2015). Nomenclatural changes in two families of asellote isopods (Acanthaspidiidae and Ischnomesidae). Zootaxa. 4013(1): 139-142.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Iolanthe Beddard, 1886. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174440