WoRMS taxon details
Bathynomus propinquus Richardson, 1910
259259 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:259259)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Richardson, H. (1910). Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the U.S. Fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-8. <em>Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Fisheries Document.</em> 736: 1-44., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44828967 [details] 
Note Philippines
From editor or global species database
type locality Philippines [details]
Depth range 772
Depth range 772 [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. Bathynomus propinquus Richardson, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=259259 on 2026-09-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Richardson, H. (1910). Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the U.S. Fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-8. <em>Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Fisheries Document.</em> 736: 1-44., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44828967 [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]
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]
Taxonomy
status source
Ahyong, S. T.; Sidabalok, C. M.; Yang, C.-H.; Ng, P. K. L. (2026). <i>Bathynomus propinquus</i> Richardson, 1910, a valid species of supergiant deep-sea isopod from the Philippines, with notes on <i>B. wilsoni</i> Ahyong, 2025 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1286: 17–39., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1286.200843 [details] Available for editors 
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Lowry, J. K.; Dempsey, K. (2006). The giant deep-sea scavenger genus <i>Bathynomus</i> (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. <em>in: Richer de Forges, B. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 24. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993).</em> 193: 163-192., available online at https://isopods.nhm.org/pdfs/38866/38866.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lowry, J. K.; Dempsey, K. (2006). The giant deep-sea scavenger genus <i>Bathynomus</i> (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. <em>in: Richer de Forges, B. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 24. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993).</em> 193: 163-192., available online at https://isopods.nhm.org/pdfs/38866/38866.pdf [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
