WoRMS taxon details
Atlantoscia floridana (Van Name, 1940)
259146 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:259146)
accepted
Species
Atlantoscia alceui Ferrara & Taiti, 1981 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ocelloscia floridana (Van Name, 1940) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Philoscia bonita Schultz, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Philoscia floridana Van Name, 1940 · unaccepted > superseded combination
recent only
(of Philoscia floridana Van Name, 1940) Van Name, W. G. (1940). A supplement to the American land and fresh-water isopod Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 77(2): 109-142. [details]
Note Florida, USA
type locality Florida, USA [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Atlantoscia floridana (Van Name, 1940). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=259146 on 2026-05-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Philoscia floridana Van Name, 1940) Van Name, W. G. (1940). A supplement to the American land and fresh-water isopod Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 77(2): 109-142. [details]
original description (of Atlantoscia alceui Ferrara & Taiti, 1981) Ferrara, F.; Taiti, S. (1981). Terrestrial isopods from Ascension Island. <em>Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Nuovo Serie).</em> Supplemento 14(13): 189-198., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03749444.1981.10736621 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Philoscia bonita Schultz, 1964) Schultz, G. A. (1964). <i>Philoscia bonita</i>, a new species of isopod crustacean from Florida. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 71(1): 156-160., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2422692 [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
original description (of Atlantoscia alceui Ferrara & Taiti, 1981) Ferrara, F.; Taiti, S. (1981). Terrestrial isopods from Ascension Island. <em>Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Nuovo Serie).</em> Supplemento 14(13): 189-198., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03749444.1981.10736621 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Philoscia bonita Schultz, 1964) Schultz, G. A. (1964). <i>Philoscia bonita</i>, a new species of isopod crustacean from Florida. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 71(1): 156-160., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2422692 [details] Available for editors
[request]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]
Other
additional source
Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). <em>Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie).</em> 654: 1-341., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60882444 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
type locality Florida, USA [details]
To Barcode of Life (19 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Philoscia floridana Van Name, 1940)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Atlantoscia floridana)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 18 proteins) (from synonym Philoscia floridana Van Name, 1940)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Philoscia bonita Schultz, 1964)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 107553) (from synonym Philoscia bonita Schultz, 1964)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Philoscia floridana Van Name, 1940)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Atlantoscia floridana)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 18 proteins) (from synonym Philoscia floridana Van Name, 1940)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Philoscia bonita Schultz, 1964)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 107553) (from synonym Philoscia bonita Schultz, 1964)
To ITIS
