WoRMS taxon details
Synidotea bicuspida (Owen, 1839)
156445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156445)
accepted
Species
Edotea bicuspida (Owen, 1839) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Edotia bicuspida (Owen, 1839) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Idotaea pulchra Lockington, 1877 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Idotea bicuspida Owen, 1839 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Idotea rugulosa Buchholz, 1874 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Synidotea incisa G. O. Sars, 1879 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Idotea bicuspida Owen, 1839) Owen, R. (1839). In: Beechey, F.W., The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage; Compiled from the Collections and Notes Made by Captain Beechey, the Officers and Naturalists of the Expedition, during a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring Straits Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S, &c, in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28: 77-97, pls. 24-28. London. [details] 
Depth range 6-250
Distribution Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern...
Depth range 6-250 [details]
Distribution Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern...
Distribution Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary; lower St. Lawrence estuary [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. Synidotea bicuspida (Owen, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156445 on 2026-09-18
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Idotea rugulosa Buchholz, 1874) Buchholz, R. (1874). Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrd in den Jahren 1869 und 1870 unter Fuhrung des Kapitan Koldewey. <em>Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar.</em> 2(8): 262-270. [details]
original description (of Idotaea pulchra Lockington, 1877) Lockington, W.N. (1877). Description of seventeen new species of Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7 [for 1876]: 41-48. [details]
original description (of Idotea bicuspida Owen, 1839) Owen, R. (1839). In: Beechey, F.W., The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage; Compiled from the Collections and Notes Made by Captain Beechey, the Officers and Naturalists of the Expedition, during a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring Straits Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S, &c, in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28: 77-97, pls. 24-28. London. [details]
original description (of Synidotea incisa G. O. Sars, 1879) Sars, G.O. (1879). Crustacea et Pycnogonida nova in itinere 2do et 3tio expeditionis Norvegicae anno 1877 & 78 collecta (prodromus descriptionis). [New Crustacea and Pycnogonida collected during the 2nd and 3rd voyages of the Norwegian expedition in 1877 & 78 (prologue to the description). <em>Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab.</em> 4: 427-476. (look up in IMIS) [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]
original description (of Idotaea pulchra Lockington, 1877) Lockington, W.N. (1877). Description of seventeen new species of Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7 [for 1876]: 41-48. [details]
original description (of Idotea bicuspida Owen, 1839) Owen, R. (1839). In: Beechey, F.W., The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage; Compiled from the Collections and Notes Made by Captain Beechey, the Officers and Naturalists of the Expedition, during a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring Straits Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S, &c, in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28: 77-97, pls. 24-28. London. [details]
original description (of Synidotea incisa G. O. Sars, 1879) Sars, G.O. (1879). Crustacea et Pycnogonida nova in itinere 2do et 3tio expeditionis Norvegicae anno 1877 & 78 collecta (prodromus descriptionis). [New Crustacea and Pycnogonida collected during the 2nd and 3rd voyages of the Norwegian expedition in 1877 & 78 (prologue to the description). <em>Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab.</em> 4: 427-476. (look up in IMIS) [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]
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype (of Idotaea pulchra Lockington, 1877), verbatimGeounit USA. W coast of Alas... [details]
Unknown type (of Idotea rugulosa Buchholz, 1874) [details]
Unknown type (of Idotea bicuspida Owen, 1839) MRCS [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 6-250 [details]Unreviewed
Distribution Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary; lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]Habitat intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Synidotea bicuspida)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To The Arctic Traits Database (16 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (49 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Synidotea bicuspida)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To The Arctic Traits Database (16 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (49 records)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
