Curassanthura bermudensis is a species of isopod

Isopoda

Isopods are an order of peracarid crustaceans, including familiar animals such as woodlice and pill bugs. The name Isopoda derives from the Greek roots and...

 crustacean

Crustacean

Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...

 in the family Leptanthuridae

Leptanthuridae

Leptanthuridae is a family of isopod crustaceans, containing the following genera:*Accalathura Barnard, 1925*Aenigmathura Thomson, 1951*Albanthura Wägele, 1985*Bourbonanthura Müller, 1990*Bullowanthura Poore, 1978...

, endemic to Bermuda

Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

. It was described in 1985 by Johann Wägele and Angelika Brandt on the basis of a single immature specimen. This holotype

Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example of an organism, known to have been used when the species was formally described. It is either the single such physical example or one of several such, but explicitly designated as the holotype...

 specimen, which is 3 millimetre (0.118110236220472 in) long, was collected from Church Cave in Bermuda, and is now stored at the Zoological Museum Amsterdam.