original description
Milne Edwards, H. (1834-1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Comprenant l´Anatomie, la Physiologie et la Classification de ces Animaux. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris; vol I (1834): i-xxxv + 1-468, vol. II (1837): 1-532, vol. III (1840): 1-638, pls. 1–42. <em>Paris, Roret.</em> 2: Text pp. 1–532; Atlas, pp. 1–32, pls. 1–42., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16170#/summary [details]
original description
(of Idotea latreillei Guérin-Méneville, 1843) Guérin-Méneville F.E. 1843. Crustaces. In: Iconographie du Regne animal de G. Cuvier, ou representation d'apres nature de l'une des especes les plus remarquable et souvent non encore figurees de chaque genre d'animaux. (Ed. G. Cuvier).Volume 3. Paris: Bailliere. [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]
From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal to shallow infratidal [details]
distribution N Namibia to Table Bay, South Africa (Kensley, 1978) [details]