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 Munnopsidae > Subfamily Acanthocopinae

Acanthocope Beddard, 1885

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthocope annulatus Menzies, 1962
Acanthocope armata Chardy, 1972
Acanthocope carinata Chardy, 1972

Literature

original description	Beddard, F. E. (1885). Preliminary notice of the Isopoda collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger.'–Part 2. Munnopsidae. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London. 1885(4): 916-925.
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	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].
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
subsequent type designation	Menzies, R. J. (1962). The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. Vema Research Series. 1: 79-206.

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. Acanthocope Beddard, 1885. 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:118333