Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Cymothoida > Superfamily Cymothooidea > Family Aegidae > Genus Alitropus

Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alitropus*	H. Milne Edwards, 1840	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Alitropus foveolatus*	Schiödte & Meinert, 1879	synonym

Literature

original description	Milne Edwards, H. (1834–1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Comprenant l´Anatomie, la Physiologie et la Classification de ces Animaux, Vol I (1834): i–xxxv + 1–468, Vol. II (1837): 1–532, Vol. III (1840): 1–638; atlas: 1–32, pls. 1–42. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris.
additional source	Bhakta, D.; Das, B. K.; Kamble, S. P.; Das, S. K.; Samanta, S.; Mitra, S. (2021). New record of two isopods Alitropus typus and Tachaea spongillicola from riverine freshwater fishes in the river Tapti. Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 46(1): 18-23.
additional source	Bruce, N. L. (1983). Aegidae (Isopoda,Crustacea) from Australia with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Natural History. 17(5): 757-788.

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. Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840. 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:256453