WoRMS taxon details
Politolana wickstenae Wetzer, Delaney & Brusca, 1987
256721 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256721)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Wetzer, R., Delaney, P. M. and Brusca, R. C. (1987) Politolana wickstenae new species, a new cirolanid isopod from the Gulf of Mexico, and a review of the "Conilera genus-group" of Bruce (1986). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 392: 1-10. [details]
Note Gulf of Mexico
From editor or global species database
type locality Gulf of Mexico [details]
Depth range 488–600 m.
Depth range 488–600 m. [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. Politolana wickstenae Wetzer, Delaney & Brusca, 1987. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256721 on 2025-08-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Wetzer, R., Delaney, P. M. and Brusca, R. C. (1987) Politolana wickstenae new species, a new cirolanid isopod from the Gulf of Mexico, and a review of the "Conilera genus-group" of Bruce (1986). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 392: 1-10. [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
redescription
Riseman, S. and Brusca, R. C. (2002) Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of <i>Politolana</i> Bruce, 1981 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134(1): 57-140. [details]
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]
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
