African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

WoRMS taxon details

Isopoda

To NHMUK collection (Isopoda Latreille, 1817; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9470244)

AphiaID

1131 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1131)

Classification

Authority

Latreille, 1816

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Peracarida

Direct children (17)

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Suborder Asellota
Suborder Calabozoidea
Suborder Cymothoida
Suborder Epicaridea
Suborder Limnoriidea
Suborder Microcerberidea
Suborder Oniscidea
Suborder Phoratopidea
Suborder Phreatoicidea
Suborder Sphaeromatidea
Suborder Tainisopidea
Suborder Valvifera
Suborder Anthuridea accepted as Anthuroidea Lilljeborg, 1864 (suborder replaced by superfamily in Cymothoida)
Suborder Epicarides accepted as Epicaridea (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling, see ICZN Article 11.7.2)
Suborder Flabellifera (now replaced by Cymothoida [including former suborders Anthuridea, Gnathiidea and Epicaridea] and Sphaeromatidea)
Suborder Gnathiidea accepted as Gnathiidae Leach, 1814 (suborder replaced by family of Cymothoida)
Suborder Isopoda incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Latreille [P. A.]. (1816). Les Crustacés, les Arachnides, et les Insectes. In: [G. L. C. F. D.] Cuvier. Le Règne Animal, Distribué d'après son Organisation, pour Servrir de Base a l'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux et d'Introduction a l'Anatomie Comparée. Volume 3: i-xxix+1-653. Paris: Deterville [Dated 1817, published 2 December 1816 fide Roux, 1976]. [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Isopoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1131 on 2025-04-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2005-05-02 12:40:44Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2011-01-03 18:29:08Z

checked

Boxshall, Geoff

2022-10-20 02:25:09Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Latreille [P. A.]. (1816). Les Crustacés, les Arachnides, et les Insectes. In: [G. L. C. F. D.] Cuvier. Le Règne Animal, Distribué d'après son Organisation, pour Servrir de Base a l'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux et d'Introduction a l'Anatomie Comparée. Volume 3: i-xxix+1-653. Paris: Deterville [Dated 1817, published 2 December 1816 fide Roux, 1976]. [details]

basis of record Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

additional source Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Dutch	pissebedden	[details]
English	pillbugs, slaters, and woodliceisopods	[details]
German	Asseln	[details]
Japanese	等脚目	[details]
Swedish	gråsuggor och tånglöss	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Isopoda)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Isopoda Latreille, 1817; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9470244)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Illustration 002299)
To The Arctic Traits Database (15 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091102)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To NHMUK collection (Isopoda Latreille, 1817; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9470244)

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Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Illustration 002299)

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To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091102)

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