African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Porcellio riffensis Caruso & Di Maio, 1990

AfReMaS taxon details

Porcellio riffensis Caruso & Di Maio, 1990

AphiaID

262431 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:262431)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Porcellio Latreille, 1804

Original name

Porcellio riffensis Caruso & Di Maio, 1990

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Caruso, D. and Di Maio, M. C. (1990) Revisione delle specie Maghrebine del gen. Porcellio Latr. II. Due specie nuove di Porcellio del Marocco (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscoidea). Animalia 17:201-208. [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. Porcellio riffensis Caruso & Di Maio, 1990. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=262431 on 2026-05-11

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Porcellio riffensis Caruso & Di Maio, 1990. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=262431 on 2026-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-03 13:02:48Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

2016-09-21 08:17:04Z

changed

Taiti, Stefano

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original description Caruso, D. and Di Maio, M. C. (1990) Revisione delle specie Maghrebine del gen. Porcellio Latr. II. Due specie nuove di Porcellio del Marocco (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscoidea). Animalia 17:201-208. [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

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