original description(ofBagatus longidactylus Nordenstam, 1946)Nordenstam, A. (1946) Marine Isopoda from Professor Dr. Sixten Bock's Pacific Expedition 1917-1918. Arkiv for Zoologi 37A (7): 1-31.[details]
basis of recordSchotte, 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 referenceBowman, T. E.; Morris, B. F. (1979). Carpias Richardson, 1902,a senior synonym of <I>Bagatus</I> Nobili,1906 and the validity of <I>Carpias minutus</I> (Richardson, 1902) , (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 92(3), 650-657.[details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality