original description
Oliver, P.G. and Trew, A. (1981) A new species of Metatrichoniscoides (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscoidea) from the coast of south Wales, U.K. Journal of Natural History 15(3):525- 529. [details]
basis of record
Schotte, M.; Kensley, B. F.; Shilling, S. (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]
additional source
Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). <em>Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde.</em> Serie A, 654: 1-341., available online at http://www-alt.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stuttgart/pdf/a_pdf/A654.pdf [details]
From editor or global species database
type locality UK [details]