Isopoda taxon details
Rhyscotus Budde-Lund, 1885
249274 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:249274)
accepted
Genus
Rhyscotus turgifrons Budde-Lund, 1885 (type by monotypy)
Hypergnathus Richardson, 1905 · unaccepted
Porcellio (Stenomacrus) Budde-Lund, 1879 · unaccepted > unavailable name (no characters, no included...)
no characters, no included available species
- Species Rhyscotus albidemaculatus Budde-Lund, 1908
- Species Rhyscotus australis Lewis, 1998
- Species Rhyscotus colimensis Mulaik, 1960
- Species Rhyscotus globiceps Budde-Lund, 1908
- Species Rhyscotus jacksoni Arcangeli, 1931
- Species Rhyscotus nasutus Budde-Lund, 1908
- Species Rhyscotus rotundatus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978
- Species Rhyscotus somaliensis Ferrara, 1972
- Species Rhyscotus sphaerocephalus Budde-Lund, 1893
- Species Rhyscotus texensis (Richardson, 1905)
- Species Rhyscotus turgifrons Budde-Lund, 1885
- Species Rhyscotus bicolor Barnard, 1924 accepted as Rhyscotus bicolor bicolor Barnard, 1924
- Species Rhyscotus ciferrii Arcangeli, 1931 accepted as Rhyscotoides ciferrii (Arcangeli, 1931)
- Species Rhyscotus cubensis Budde-Lund, 1908 accepted as Rhyscotoides cubensis (Budde-Lund, 1908) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Rhyscotus laxus Van Name, 1924 accepted as Rhyscotoides laxus (Van Name, 1924) accepted as Rhyscotoides parallelus (Budde-Lund, 1893)
- Species Rhyscotus linearis Budde-Lund, 1908 accepted as Rhyscotoides linearis (Budde-Lund, 1908) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Rhyscotus ortonedae Budde-Lund, 1908 accepted as Rhyscotoides ortonedae (Budde-Lund, 1908) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Rhyscotus parallelus Budde-Lund, 1893 accepted as Rhyscotoides parallelus (Budde-Lund, 1893) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
recent only
Budde-Lund, G. (1885). Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria, per Familias et Genera et Species Descripta. 319 pp. Copenhagen., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.109769 [details] 
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. Rhyscotus Budde-Lund, 1885. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=249274 on 2026-07-08
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original description
Budde-Lund, G. (1885). Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria, per Familias et Genera et Species Descripta. 319 pp. Copenhagen., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.109769 [details]
original description (of Hypergnathus Richardson, 1905) Richardson, H. (1905). A monograph on the isopods of North America. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 54: i-liii + 1-727., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.54.i [details]
original description (of Porcellio (Stenomacrus) Budde-Lund, 1879) Budde-Lund, G. (1879). <em>Prospectus generum specierumque crustaceorum isopodum terrestrium.</em> 10 pp. Copenhagen. [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]
additional source 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
original description (of Hypergnathus Richardson, 1905) Richardson, H. (1905). A monograph on the isopods of North America. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 54: i-liii + 1-727., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.54.i [details]
original description (of Porcellio (Stenomacrus) Budde-Lund, 1879) Budde-Lund, G. (1879). <em>Prospectus generum specierumque crustaceorum isopodum terrestrium.</em> 10 pp. Copenhagen. [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]
additional source 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
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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