WoRMS name details
Thaumastosoma distinctum (Birstein, 1963)
255708 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255708)
unaccepted (changed genus)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Birstein, J. A. (1963) Deep-sea isopod crustaceans of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Institute of Oceanology of the U.S.S.R., Akademii Nauk: Moscow [in Russian with English summary] 213 pp. [details] Available for editors 
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(of Desmosoma distinctum Birstein, 1963) Birstein, J. A. (1963) Deep-sea isopod crustaceans of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Institute of Oceanology of the U.S.S.R., Akademii Nauk: Moscow [in Russian with English summary] 213 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request](of Desmosoma distinctum Birstein, 1963) Birstein, J. A. (1963) Deep-sea isopod crustaceans of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Institute of Oceanology of the U.S.S.R., Akademii Nauk: Moscow [in Russian with English summary] 213 pp. [details] Available for editors
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Note N.W. Pacific
From editor or global species database
type locality N.W. Pacific [details]
Depth range 5680-5690
Depth range 5680-5690 [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. Thaumastosoma distinctum (Birstein, 1963). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255708 on 2025-08-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Birstein, J. A. (1963) Deep-sea isopod crustaceans of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Institute of Oceanology of the U.S.S.R., Akademii Nauk: Moscow [in Russian with English summary] 213 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Desmosoma distinctum Birstein, 1963) Birstein, J. A. (1963) Deep-sea isopod crustaceans of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Institute of Oceanology of the U.S.S.R., Akademii Nauk: Moscow [in Russian with English summary] 213 pp. [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 Hessler, R. R. (1970). The Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) of the Gay Head - Bermuda Transect. <em>Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.</em> 15: 1-185., available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=sio [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Desmosoma distinctum Birstein, 1963) Birstein, J. A. (1963) Deep-sea isopod crustaceans of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Institute of Oceanology of the U.S.S.R., Akademii Nauk: Moscow [in Russian with English summary] 213 pp. [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 Hessler, R. R. (1970). The Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) of the Gay Head - Bermuda Transect. <em>Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.</em> 15: 1-185., available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=sio [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
