WoRMS taxon details
Mastigoniscus gratus (Menzies & George, 1972)
261114 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:261114)
accepted
Species
Haploniscus gratus Menzies & George, 1972 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Haploniscus gratus Menzies & George, 1972) Menzies, R. J. and George, R. Y. (1972) Isopod Crustacea of the Peru-Chile Trench. Anton Bruun Report 9: 1-124. [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype (of Haploniscus gratus Menzies & George,...
, Note Peru-Chile Trench
Holotype (of Haploniscus gratus Menzies & George, 1972) AMNH 12949, geounit Peruvian part of the South Pacific Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
type locality Peru-Chile Trench [details]
Depth range 5825-5841
Depth range 5825-5841 [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. Mastigoniscus gratus (Menzies & George, 1972). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=261114 on 2025-06-13
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Nomenclature
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(of Haploniscus gratus Menzies & George, 1972) Menzies, R. J. and George, R. Y. (1972) Isopod Crustacea of the Peru-Chile Trench. Anton Bruun Report 9: 1-124. [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]
new combination reference Lincoln, R. J. (1985) The marine fauna of New Zealand: deep-sea Isopoda Asellota, family Haploniscidae. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 94: 1-56., available online at https://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/Memoir%20094_Marine%20Fauna%20of%20NZ_Deep%20Sea%20Isopoda%20Asellota%20-%201985.pdf [details]
[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]
new combination reference Lincoln, R. J. (1985) The marine fauna of New Zealand: deep-sea Isopoda Asellota, family Haploniscidae. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 94: 1-56., available online at https://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/Memoir%20094_Marine%20Fauna%20of%20NZ_Deep%20Sea%20Isopoda%20Asellota%20-%201985.pdf [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Haploniscus gratus Menzies & George, 1972) AMNH 12949, geounit Peruvian part of the South Pacific Ocean [details]
