WoRMS taxon details
Mothocya komatsui Yamauchi, 2009
405085 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:405085)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Yamauchi, T. (2009) Deep-sea cymothoid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) of Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan. <i>Deep-sea Fauna and Pollutants off Pacific Coast of Northern Japan</i> T. Fujita (Ed.) National Museum of Nature and Science Monogrpah 39: 467-481. [details]
Note 38°29.8;N, 142°21.6'E (start), off Kinkazan,...
Type locality 38°29.8;N, 142°21.6'E (start), off Kinkazan, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan; 905–908 m. [details]
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. Mothocya komatsui Yamauchi, 2009. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405085 on 2025-11-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Yamauchi, T. (2009) Deep-sea cymothoid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) of Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan. <i>Deep-sea Fauna and Pollutants off Pacific Coast of Northern Japan</i> T. Fujita (Ed.) National Museum of Nature and Science Monogrpah 39: 467-481. [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Poore, G. C. B.; Bruce, N. L. (2012). Global Diversity of Marine Isopods (Except Asellota and Crustacean Symbionts). <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 7(8): e43529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043529 [details] 
additional source Yamauchi, T. (2009) Deep-sea cymothoid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) of Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan. <i>Deep-sea Fauna and Pollutants off Pacific Coast of Northern Japan</i> T. Fujita (Ed.) National Museum of Nature and Science Monogrpah 39: 467-481. [details]
additional source Yamauchi, T. (2009) Deep-sea cymothoid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) of Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan. <i>Deep-sea Fauna and Pollutants off Pacific Coast of Northern Japan</i> T. Fujita (Ed.) National Museum of Nature and Science Monogrpah 39: 467-481. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality 38°29.8;N, 142°21.6'E (start), off Kinkazan, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan; 905–908 m. [details]
