original description
(of Metoponorthus stricticauda orientalis Vandel, 1954) Vandel, A. (1954). Étude des isopodes terrestres recueillis aux îles Canaries par J. Mateu en Mars–Avril 1952. <em>Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Série A, Zoologie.</em> 8(1): 1-60. [details] Available for editors
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]
From editor or global species database
type locality Canary Is. [details]