World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database


Short name
WoRMS Isopoda
Full name
World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database
Version / Issued
2025-05-01 / 2025-05-01
Contact
Editor
Boyko, Christopher 0000-0002-2205-1488
Hadfield, Kerry A. 0000-0003-1308-6360
Merrin, Kelly
Contributor
American Museum of Natural History Division of Invertebrate Zoology
North-West University Department of Biological SciencesZA
Monash UniversityZA
University of Ryukyus Graduate School of Engineering and ScienceJP
Museums VictoriaAU
Vlaams Instituut voor de ZeeBE
Taxonomic coverage

Abstract

This list began as an initiative of the US National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, maintained by the late Brian Kensley and Marilyn Schotte. It grew into a valuable resource http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ for providing nomenclature on the Isopoda: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA. This list is now reconstructed at http://www.marinespecies.org, with more detailed information on synonymies and distributions, and a capability to host more information, such as images, original literature, and specimen data. This list will be transferred on a monthly basis back to the Smithsonian site. Data have been contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the WoRMS, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).

Taxonomic scope
isopods
Geographic scope
Global
Temporal scope
1758-2025
License
cc by
Checklist Confidence
Completeness
100
ISSN
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GBIF key
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Identifiers
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Citation
Boyko, C., Hadfield, K. A., Merrin, K., Ota, Y., & Poore, G. (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database (version 2025-05-01). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, et al., Catalogue of Life (Version 2025-05-13). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgqdn-3br
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