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 Dendrotionidae

Acanthomunna Beddard, 1886

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudomunna*	Hansen, 1916	synonym

Children

Acanthomunna hystrix (Hansen, 1916)

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	van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
identification resource	Beddard, F. E. (1886). Report on the Isopoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Part II. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 17(48): 1-178, pls. 1-25.
identification resource	Cohen, B. F. (1998) Dendrotiidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of the southeastern Australian continental slope. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 57(1): 1-38.

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. Acanthomunna 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:118312