World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WRiMS taxon details

Joeropsis dubia Menzies, 1951

AphiaID

256048 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256048)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Joeropsis Koehler, 1885

Original name

Joeropsis dubia Menzies, 1951

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Menzies, R. J. (1951) New marine isopods, chiefly from northern California, with notes on related forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 101 (3273): 105-156., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.101-3273.105 [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Joeropsis dubia Menzies, 1951. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced%20/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256048 on 2026-08-08

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Joeropsis dubia Menzies, 1951. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256048 on 2026-08-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-03 13:02:48Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description Menzies, R. J. (1951) New marine isopods, chiefly from northern California, with notes on related forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 101 (3273): 105-156., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.101-3273.105 [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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From regional or thematic species database

Introduced species vector dispersal Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) Ships: accidental with ballast water, sea water systems, live wells or other deck basins [details]

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Joeropsis dubia)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (12 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 87697)
To ITIS