WoRMS taxon details
Betamorpha Hessler & Thistle, 1975
174930 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174930)
accepted
Genus
Betamorpha characta Hessler & Thistle, 1975 (type by original designation)
- Species Betamorpha acuticoxalis (Birstein, 1963)
- Species Betamorpha africana (Menzies, 1962)
- Species Betamorpha characta Hessler & Thistle, 1975
- Species Betamorpha fusiformis (Barnard, 1920)
- Species Betamorpha indentifrons (Menzies, 1962)
- Species Betamorpha lasia Thistle & Hessler, 1977
- Species Betamorpha longiramosa Mezhov, 1981
- Species Betamorpha megalocephalis Thistle & Hessler, 1977
- Species Betamorpha megista Thistle & Hessler, 1977
- Species Betamorpha profunda (Menzies & George, 1972)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hessler, R. R.; Thistle, D. (1975). On the place of origin of deep-sea isopods. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 32(2): 155-165. [details] Available for editors 
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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. Betamorpha Hessler & Thistle, 1975. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174930 on 2025-05-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Hessler, R. R.; Thistle, D. (1975). On the place of origin of deep-sea isopods. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 32(2): 155-165. [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
[request]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]
Identification resource
identification resource
Thistle, D. and Hessler, R. (1977) A revision of Betamorpha (Isopoda; Asellota) in the world ocean with three new species. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 60: 275-295., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1977.tb01030.x [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
