{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Italic title}}{{Automatic Taxobox | name = ''Isaea'' | taxon = Isaea | authority = H. Milne-Edwards, 1830 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{nowrap|''Isaea montagui'' <small>Milne-Edwards, 1830</small>}}<br />''Isaea elmhirsti'' <small>Patience, 1909</small> }}
'''''Isaea''''' is a small genus of amphipod crustaceans that live commensally on the mouthparts of other crustaceans.
==''Isaea montagui''== ''I. montagui'' was named in 1830 by Henri Milne-Edwards in honour of George Montagu.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.m.html |work=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |title=George Montagu |author=Hans G. Hansson |publisher=Göteborgs Universitet |accessdate=April 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205205939/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.m.html |archive-date=February 5, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It lives on the mouthparts of the spider crab ''Maja squinado'', and is found from the West of Ireland to the Mediterranean Sea.<ref name="NEAT">{{cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/neat_pdf/NEAT*Crustacea.pdf |publisher=Göteborgs Universitet |accessdate=April 13, 2010 |author=Hans G. Hansson |date=August 1998 |title=NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): South Scandinavian marine crustacea check-list |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721233347/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/neat_pdf/NEAT*Crustacea.pdf |archive-date=July 21, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==''Isaea elmhirsti''== ''I. elmhirsti'' was named in 1909 by Alexander Patience in honour of Richard Elmhirst, who was the director at that time of the University Marine Biological Station at Millport.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.p.html |work=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |title=Alexander Patience |author=Hans G. Hansson |publisher=Göteborgs Universitet |accessdate=April 13, 2010 |archive-date=October 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027104412/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.p.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It lives on the mouthparts of the European lobster, ''Homarus gammarus'', and is found from Ireland to the Bay of Biscay.<ref name="NEAT"/>
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Category:Corophiida Category:Amphipod genera Category:Amphipods of the Atlantic Ocean Category:Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards