World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans

Isopoda name details

Porcellio politus C. Koch, 1840

AphiaID

886217 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:886217)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Protracheoniscus politus (C. Koch, 1840)

Rank

Species

Parent

Porcellio Latreille, 1804

Original name

Porcellio politus C. Koch, 1840

Synonymised names

Porcellio (Mesoporcellio_Sektio_Proporcellio) politus C. Koch, 1841 · unaccepted > superseded combination

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Variety Porcellio politus var. ubliensis Verhoeff, 1901 accepted as Protracheoniscus ubliensis (Verhoeff, 1901) represented as Protracheoniscus ubliensis ubliensis (Verhoeff, 1901) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Koch, C. L. (1840). Deutschlands Crustaceen, Arachniden und Myriopoden. 28. Regensburg. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Porcellio politus C. Koch, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=886217 on 2025-05-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-09-21 05:46:48Z

created

Taiti, Stefano

2023-11-20 16:15:46Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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Sources (2)

original description Koch, C. L. (1840). Deutschlands Crustaceen, Arachniden und Myriopoden. 28. Regensburg. [details]

basis of record Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). <em>Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie).</em> 654: 1-341., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60882444 [details] Available for editors