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Bathynomus A. Milne Edwards, 1879 
AphiaID: 248508

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Cirolanidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Bathynomus giganteus A. Milne Edwards, 1879
Parent Cirolanidae Dana, 1852
Sources  basis of record: 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., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

identification resource: Lowry, J.K. & Dempsey, K. (2006) The giant deep-sea scavenger genus Bathynomus (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) in the Indo-West Pacific, in Richer De Forges, B. & Justine, J.-L. (eds). Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, volume 24. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 193, 163–192. [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Bathynomus affinis Richardson, 1910
Species Bathynomus brucei Lowry & Dempsey, 2006
Species Bathynomus bruscai Lowry & Dempsey, 2006
Species Bathynomus crosnieri Lowry & Dempsey, 2006
Species Bathynomus decemspinosus Shih, 1972
Species Bathynomus doederleinii Ortmann, 1894
Species Bathynomus giganteus A. Milne Edwards, 1879
Species Bathynomus immanis Bruce, 1986
Species Bathynomus kapala Griffin, 1975
Species Bathynomus keablei Lowry & Dempsey, 2006
Species Bathynomus kensleyi Lowry & Dempsey, 2006
Species Bathynomus lowryi Bruce & Bussarawit, 2004
Species Bathynomus miyarei Lemos de Castro, 1978
Species Bathynomus obtusus Magalhaes & Young, 2003
Species Bathynomus pelor Bruce, 1986
Species Bathynomus richeri Lowry & Dempsey, 2006

Species Bathynomus propinquus Richardson, 1910 (nomen dubium)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
West Atlantic [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Image 
Bathynomus giganteus
[image from typetaxon]
Bathynomus giganteus
added on 2012-10-09 - author: Expedition to the Deep Slope 2006 Exploration, NOAA Vents Program (NOAA–OE) ()
qualitystatus: checked by Horton, Tammy on 2013-03-06 15:41:44
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248508
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2008-01-25 03:59:11Z  changed  Bruce, Niel L.
  
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  Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Bathynomus A. Milne Edwards, 1879. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248508 on 2013-05-18
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