World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans

Isopoda name details

Periscyphus Gerstaecker, 1873

AphiaID

1669569 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1669569)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Accepted name

Periscyphis Gerstaecker, 1873

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Periscyphis trivialis Gerstaecker, 1873 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Eubelidae Budde-Lund, 1899

Original name

Periscyphis Gerstaecker, 1873

Direct children (1)

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Species Periscyphus weberi Dollfus, 1898 accepted as Periscyphis weberi Dollfus, 1898 accepted as Adinda weberi (Dollfus, 1898) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, misspelling of genus name)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Periscyphis Gerstaecker, 1873) Gerstaecker, A. (1873). (Crustacea.) Ordo III. Isopoda, Latr. Pp. 525-528 in:. Baron Carl Claus von der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Africa in den Jahren 1859-1865. Dritter Band. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Zweite Abtheilung: Gliederthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriapoden und Isopoden). Leipzig und Heidelberg: C. F. Winter. xvi + 532 pp., pls. 1-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24401046 [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Periscyphus Gerstaecker, 1873. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1669569 on 2025-05-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2023-07-14 16:55:12Z

created

Boyko, Christopher B.

2025-03-28 16:43:10Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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Sources (1)

original description (of Periscyphis Gerstaecker, 1873) Gerstaecker, A. (1873). (Crustacea.) Ordo III. Isopoda, Latr. Pp. 525-528 in:. Baron Carl Claus von der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Africa in den Jahren 1859-1865. Dritter Band. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Zweite Abtheilung: Gliederthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriapoden und Isopoden). Leipzig und Heidelberg: C. F. Winter. xvi + 532 pp., pls. 1-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24401046 [details]