WoRMS name details
Pleurogoniidae Nordenstam, 1933
118268 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118268)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Family
Pleurogonium G. O. Sars, 1872 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pleurogoniini Nordenstam, 1933) Nordenstam, A. (1933). Marine Isopoda of the families Serolidae, Idoteidae, Pseudidotheidae, Arcturidae, Parasellidae and Stenetriidae mainly from the South Atlantic. <em>Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903.</em> 3(1): 1-284, pls. 1-2. [details] Available for editors 
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Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Pleurogoniidae Nordenstam, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118268 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pleurogoniini Nordenstam, 1933) Nordenstam, A. (1933). Marine Isopoda of the families Serolidae, Idoteidae, Pseudidotheidae, Arcturidae, Parasellidae and Stenetriidae mainly from the South Atlantic. <em>Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903.</em> 3(1): 1-284, pls. 1-2. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
[request]basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hooker, A. (1985). New species of Isopoda from the Florida Middlegrounds (Crustacea: Peracarida. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 98(1): 255-280. [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Synonymy This family is considered valid by some sources (e.g. Roman & Dalens, 1999), but is considered as a junior synonym of Paramunnidae by Martin & Davis (2001) [details]
