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Ceratothoa transversa (Richardson, 1901)

256740  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256740)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Cymothoida (Suborder)
  11. Cymothooidea (Superfamily)
  12. Cymothoidae (Family)
  13. Ceratothoa (Genus)
  14. Ceratothoa transversa (Species)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Meinertia transversa Richardson, 1900) Richardson, H. (1900). Synopses of North American invertebrates. VIII. The Isopoda. - Part I. Chelifera, Flabellifera, Valvifera. <em>American Naturalist.</em> 34: 207-230. [details] OpenAccess publication
Note Gulf of Mexico  
type locality Gulf of Mexico [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ceratothoa transversa (Richardson, 1901). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256740 on 2025-08-24
Date
action
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2019-07-05 18:21:23Z
changed
Hadfield, Kerry A.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Meinertia transversa Richardson, 1900) Richardson, H. (1900). Synopses of North American invertebrates. VIII. The Isopoda. - Part I. Chelifera, Flabellifera, Valvifera. <em>American Naturalist.</em> 34: 207-230. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Meinertia transversa Richardson, 1901) Richardson, H. (1901). Key to the isopods of the Atlantic coast of North America with descriptions of new and little known species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 23: 493-579., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7511597 [details] OpenAccess publication

Taxonomy

status source Hadfield, K. A.; Bruce, N. L.; Smit, N. J. (2016). Redescription of poorly known species of <I>Ceratothoa</I> Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), based on original type material. <em>Zookeys.</em> 592: 39-61. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

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 Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
type locality Gulf of Mexico [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Meinertia transversa Richardson, 1900)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Meinertia transversa Richardson, 1900)
To ITIS

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