WoRMS taxon details
Asellota
13794 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:13794)
Latreille, 1802
accepted
Suborder
Microcerberidea · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Superfamily Aselloidea Latreille, 1802
- Superfamily Gnathostenetroidoidea Kussakin, 1967
- Superfamily Janiroidea G. O. Sars, 1897
- Superfamily Stenetrioidea Hansen, 1905
- Superfamily Gnathostenetrioidea Kussakin, 1967 accepted as Gnathostenetroidoidea Kussakin, 1967 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
- Superfamily Protallocoxoidea Schultz, 1978 accepted as Stenetrioidea Hansen, 1905 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Superfamily Asellota incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Latreille, P.A. (1802 - 1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. [Natural History, General and Particular, of Crustaceans and Insects. Natural Families of Genera.]. <em>Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris.</em> 14 vols:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details] 
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Asellota. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=13794 on 2026-07-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Latreille, P.A. (1802 - 1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. [Natural History, General and Particular, of Crustaceans and Insects. Natural Families of Genera.]. <em>Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris.</em> 14 vols:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details]
original description (of Microcerberidea) Lang, K. (1961). Contributions to the knowledge of the genus <i>Microcerberus</i> Karaman (Crustacea Isopoda) with a description of a new species from the central Californian coast. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 13(22): 493-510, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors
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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]
original description (of Microcerberidea) Lang, K. (1961). Contributions to the knowledge of the genus <i>Microcerberus</i> Karaman (Crustacea Isopoda) with a description of a new species from the central Californian coast. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 13(22): 493-510, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors
[request]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]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Douady, C. J.; Malard, F.; Coineau, N.; Francois, C.; Issartel, C.; Kim, J.; Konecny‐Dupré, L.; Lefebure, T.; Merrin, K. L.; Thomas Thorpe, J. A. (2026). Molecular evidence for the placement of Microcerberidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) within the suborder Asellota and Invalidity of the suborder Microcerberidea. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70063 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Wolff, T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. <em>Galathea Report.</em> 6: 7–320, pl. 1–19., available online at https://samlinger.snm.ku.dk/en/library/library-of-the-natural-history-museum-of-denmark/galathea-report-1957-2005/ [details]
identification resource Menzies, R. J. (1962). The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Vema Research Series.</em> 1: 79-206., available online at http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/19789/19789.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Menzies, R. J. (1962). The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Vema Research Series.</em> 1: 79-206., available online at http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/19789/19789.pdf [details] Available for editors
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context source (PeRMS)
Delgado, J. G. Z.; Conde, E. G. T.; Miranda, J. D. H. (2021). Lista sistemática de isópodos marinos del Perú, primer registro de" Isocladus bahamondei" Carvacho, 1997 (Crustacea, Peracarida) y aportes de su ecología para la costa peruana. <em>Revista de Investigaciones Marinas.</em> 41(2), 22-35. [details]
additional source Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ミズムシ亜目スナナナフシ亜目 [from synonym] | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Microcerberidea)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Asellota)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microcerberidea) (from synonym Microcerberidea)
To Genbank (from synonym Microcerberidea)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (7 traits)
To ITIS
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Microcerberidea)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Asellota)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microcerberidea) (from synonym Microcerberidea)
To Genbank (from synonym Microcerberidea)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (7 traits)
To ITIS
