Isopoda

Isopoda name details

Rhyscotus laxus Van Name, 1924

886668 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:886668)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Malacostraca
  7. Eumalacostraca
  8. Peracarida
  9. Isopoda
  10. Oniscidea
  11. Orthogonopoda
  12. Crinocheta
  13. Rhyscotidae
  14. Rhyscotus
  15. Rhyscotus laxus
 unaccepted
Rhyscotoides laxus (Van Name, 1924) accepted as Rhyscotoides parallelus (Budde-Lund, 1893)
Species
Rhyscotus Budde-Lund, 1885
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Van Name, W.G. (1924). Isopods from the Williams Galapagos Expedition. <em>Zoologica, New York.</em> 5: 181-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.190342 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
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 laxus Van Name, 1924. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=886668 on 2026-07-25
Date
action
by
2016-09-26 06:21:52Z
created
Taiti, Stefano
2019-07-15 13:01:17Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

original description Van Name, W.G. (1924). Isopods from the Williams Galapagos Expedition. <em>Zoologica, New York.</em> 5: 181-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.190342 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (6 records) 

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