original description
(of Janira nana Stebbing, 1905) Stebbing, T. R. R. (1905). Report on the Isopoda collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W. A., Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar with Supplmentary Reports Upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists.</em> 4(23): 1-64, pls. 1-12. [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]
new combination reference
Bowman, T. E.; Morris, B. F. (1979). Carpias Richardson, 1902,a senior synonym of <I>Bagatus</I> Nobili,1906 and the validity of <I>Carpias minutus</I> (Richardson, 1902) , (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 92(3), 650-657. [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range shallow [details]
type locality Sri Lanka [details]