Nomenclature
original description
Birstein, J. A. (1960). The family Ischnomesidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) in the north-western part of the Pacific and the problem of amphiboreal and bipolar distribution of the deep sea fauna. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 34(1): 3-28. [details] Available for editors
[request]
basis of record
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]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 4000-6015 [details]
type locality N.W. Pacific [details]