Deep-Sea taxon details
Vemathambema Menzies, 1962
249463 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:249463)
accepted
Genus
Vemathambema elongata Menzies, 1962 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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 
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Vemathambema Menzies, 1962. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=249463 on 2026-04-16
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Vemathambema Menzies, 1962. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=249463 on 2026-04-16
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original description
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
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]
redescription Just, J. (2025). <i>Vemathambema falciclava </i>sp. nov. from south-eastern Australia, first Indo-Pacific record of the genus, with a review of diagnoses in the family (Isopoda, Asellota, Echinothambematidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5725(1): 135-142., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.1.7
page(s): 136; note: Key to species [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]
redescription Just, J. (2025). <i>Vemathambema falciclava </i>sp. nov. from south-eastern Australia, first Indo-Pacific record of the genus, with a review of diagnoses in the family (Isopoda, Asellota, Echinothambematidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5725(1): 135-142., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.1.7
page(s): 136; note: Key to species [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
