WoRMS name details
Orio zancleus Cocco, 1832
1545959 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1545959)
unaccepted (probable synonym, rejected as a senior synonym of B. crusculum in order to preserve nomenclatural stability (ICZN, Article 23.9))
Species
Orio Cocco, 1832 accepted as Oxycephalus H. Milne Edwards, 1830
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Cocco, A. (1832). Su di alcuni nuovi crustacei del mari di Messina Lettera del dott. Anastasio Cocco al celebre dott. William Elford Leach uno de' conservatori del Museo britannico in Londra. <em>Effemeridi scientifiche e letterarie per la Sicilia.</em> 2: 203-209, unnumbered Plate. [details] 
Note Type material of Orio zancleus could not be...
Type material Type material of Orio zancleus could not be found in any major European institution and is considered lost. The type locality is the Mediterranean Sea, near Messina [about 38°10’N 15°32’E] [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Orio zancleus Cocco, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1545959 on 2026-01-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Cocco, A. (1832). Su di alcuni nuovi crustacei del mari di Messina Lettera del dott. Anastasio Cocco al celebre dott. William Elford Leach uno de' conservatori del Museo britannico in Londra. <em>Effemeridi scientifiche e letterarie per la Sicilia.</em> 2: 203-209, unnumbered Plate. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Zeidler, W. (2021). A review of the hyperiidean amphipod family Brachyscelidae Stephensen, 1923 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5026 (3): 405–439., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5026.3.4 [details] Available for editors 
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Type material Type material of Orio zancleus could not be found in any major European institution and is considered lost. The type locality is the Mediterranean Sea, near Messina [about 38°10’N 15°32’E] [details]
