World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans - Afrophiloscia tanzaniana Ferrara & Taiti, 1984

Isopoda name details

Afrophiloscia tanzaniana Ferrara & Taiti, 1984

AphiaID

294277 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:294277)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Anchiphiloscia tanzaniana (Ferrara & Taiti, 1984)

Rank

Species

Parent

Afrophiloscia Taiti & Ferrara, 1980 accepted as Anchiphiloscia Stebbing, 1908

Original name

Afrophiloscia tanzaniana Ferrara & Taiti, 1984

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Ferrara, F.; Taiti, S. (1984). New species and records of Philosciidae (terrestrial isopods) from eastern Africa. <em>Revue de Zoologie Africaine.</em> 98(2): 293-307. [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. Afrophiloscia tanzaniana Ferrara & Taiti, 1984. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=294277 on 2025-06-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-19 16:12:07Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

2023-12-29 18:02:06Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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Sources (2)

original description Ferrara, F.; Taiti, S. (1984). New species and records of Philosciidae (terrestrial isopods) from eastern Africa. <em>Revue de Zoologie Africaine.</em> 98(2): 293-307. [details]

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]