WoRMS name details
Proscina Stephensen & Pirlot, 1931
550637 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:550637)
unaccepted
Genus
Proscinidae Pirlot, 1933 accepted as Mimonectidae Bovallius, 1885
- Species Proscina birsteini M. Vinogradov, 1956 accepted as Mimonectes birsteini (Vinogradov, 1956)
- Species Proscina magna Stephensen & Pirlot, 1931 accepted as Mimonectes loveni Bovallius, 1885 (Junior Synonym)
- Species Proscina scinoides (Woltereck, 1906) accepted as Mimonectes scinoides (Woltereck, 1906) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Proscina stephenseni (Pirlot, 1929) accepted as Mimonectes stephenseni (Pirlot, 1929)
- Species Proscina vinogradovi Shih & Hendrycks, 1996 accepted as Mimonectes vinogradovi (Shih & Hendrycks, 1996)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Stephensen, K.; Pirlot, J. M. (1931). Les Amphipodes Hyperides du genre Mimonectes et de quelques genres voisins. <em>Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 71, 4, 501-553. [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. Proscina Stephensen & Pirlot, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=550637 on 2026-07-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Stephensen, K.; Pirlot, J. M. (1931). Les Amphipodes Hyperides du genre Mimonectes et de quelques genres voisins. <em>Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 71, 4, 501-553. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Zeidler, W. (2012). A review of the hyperiidean amphipod families Mimonectidae and Proscinidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Scinoidea). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3533: 1–74., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03533p074f.pdf [details] Available for editors 
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | プロスキナ属 | [details] |
