WoRMS taxon details
Gnathiidae Leach, 1814
118278 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118278)
accepted
Family
Gnathia Leach, 1814 (type by original designation)
Anceinae Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Gnathiidea · unaccepted (suborder replaced by family of...)
suborder replaced by family of Cymothoida
Gnathionii Leach, 1814 · unaccepted
Pranizidae Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pranizinae Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Genus Afrignathia Hadfield & Smit, 2008
- Genus Bathygnathia Dollfus, 1901
- Genus Bythognathia Camp, 1988
- Genus Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901
- Genus Elaphognathia Monod, 1926
- Genus Euneognathia Stebbing, 1893
- Genus Gibbagnathia Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Genus Gnathia Leach, 1814
- Genus Monodgnathia Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Genus Paragnathia Omer-Cooper & Omer-Cooper, 1916
- Genus Tenerognathia Tanaka, 2005
- Genus Thaumastognathia Monod, 1926
- Genus Akidognathia Stebbing, 1912 accepted as Bathygnathia Dollfus, 1901 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Anceus Risso, 1816 accepted as Gnathia Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Heterognathia Amar & Roman, 1974 accepted as Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Praniza Latreille, 1818 accepted as Praniza Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Gnathia Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Praniza Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Gnathia Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Praniza Latreille, 1816 accepted as Praniza Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Gnathia Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > nomen nudum, no characters, no included species)
- Genus Pranize Leach, 1818 accepted as Praniza Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Gnathia Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > unavailable name, vernacular name, no included species)
- Genus Pranyses Latreille, 1816 accepted as Praniza Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Gnathia Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > unavailable name, vernacular name, no included species)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Gnathionii Leach, 1814) Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. <em>In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640 [details] 
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. Gnathiidae Leach, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118278 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Gnathiidea) Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. <em>In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640 [details]
original description (of Gnathionii Leach, 1814) Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. <em>In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640 [details]
original description (of Pranizidae Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14(41): 297-316., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28136775 [details]
original description (of Pranizinae Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14(41): 297-316., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28136775 [details]
original description (of Anceinae Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14(41): 297-316., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28136775 [details]
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]
original description (of Gnathionii Leach, 1814) Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. <em>In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640 [details]
original description (of Pranizidae Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14(41): 297-316., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28136775 [details]
original description (of Pranizinae Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14(41): 297-316., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28136775 [details]
original description (of Anceinae Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14(41): 297-316., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28136775 [details]
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]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Delgado, J. G. Z.; Conde, E. G. T.; Miranda, J. D. H. (2021). Lista sistemática de isópodos marinos del Perú, primer registro de" Isocladus bahamondei" Carvacho, 1997 (Crustacea, Peracarida) y aportes de su ecología para la costa peruana. <em>Revista de Investigaciones Marinas.</em> 41(2), 22-35. [details]
additional source Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 17: 893-923. [details] Available for editors
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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]
additional source Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 17: 893-923. [details] Available for editors
[request]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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ウミクワガタ科 | [details] |
