WoRMS taxon details
Probopyrus floridensis Richardson, 1904
257895 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257895)
accepted
Species
- Variety Probopyrus floridensis var. gigas Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1925 accepted as Probopyrus pandalicola (Packard, 1879) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Richardson, H. (1904) Contributions to the Natural History of the Isopoda. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 27: 1-89. [details] 
Note Florida, USA
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type locality Florida, USA [details]
Taxonomic remark Taxonomic remark Although Markham (1985) considered P. floridensis a synonym of P. pandalicola because he could find no...
Taxonomic remark Taxonomic remark Although Markham (1985) considered P. floridensis a synonym of P. pandalicola because he could find no morphological grounds to distinguish the adults, Dale & Anderson (1982) clearly showed characters of the cryptoniscus larvae that separated the two species. [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. (Eds) (2024). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Probopyrus floridensis Richardson, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=257895 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Richardson, H. (1904) Contributions to the Natural History of the Isopoda. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 27: 1-89. [details]
basis of record 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]. [details]
additional source Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
basis of record 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]. [details]
additional source Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Taxonomic remark Although Markham (1985) considered P. floridensis a synonym of P. pandalicola because he could find no morphological grounds to distinguish the adults, Dale & Anderson (1982) clearly showed characters of the cryptoniscus larvae that separated the two species. [details]type locality Florida, USA [details]
