original description
Menzies, R. J. and Frankenberg, D. (1967) Systematics and distribution of the bathyl-abyssal genus Mesosignum (Crustacea: Isopoda). Antarctic Research Series, Biology of the Antarctic Seas III 11 (1579): 1-261. [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]
Holotype AMNH 12494, geounit Costa Rican part of the North Pacific Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 3718 [details]
type locality Pacific Costa Rica [details]