World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans

Isopoda name details

Melanesillo Verhoeff, 1938

AphiaID

293842 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293842)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > unavailable name (no type species selected)

Accepted Name

Spherillo Dana, 1853

Rank

Genus

Parent

Armadillidae Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831

Orig. name

Melanesillo Verhoeff, 1938

Direct children (2)

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Species Melanesillo bocki Verhoeff, 1938 accepted as Spherillo bocki (Verhoeff, 1938) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Melanesillo scamnorum Verhoeff, 1938 accepted as Spherillo vitiensis Dana, 1853 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Verhoeff, K. W. (1938). Über einige polynesische Oniscoideen von Prof. Sixten Bock's Pazifik-Expedition 1917-1918. Arkif för Zoologi. 30A(16): 1-14. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. (Eds) (2024). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Melanesillo Verhoeff, 1938. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293842 on 2024-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-19 09:31:38Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

2016-08-03 06:21:29Z

changed

Taiti, Stefano

2016-09-03 13:39:13Z

changed

Taiti, Stefano

2023-06-25 12:51:10Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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Sources (3)

original description Verhoeff, K. W. (1938). Über einige polynesische Oniscoideen von Prof. Sixten Bock's Pazifik-Expedition 1917-1918. Arkif för Zoologi. 30A(16): 1-14. [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]

source of synonymy Schmidt, C.; Leistikow, A. (2004). Catalogue of genera of the terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea). Steenstrupia. 28(1): 1-118. [details] Available for editors