World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans

Isopoda taxon details

Plakarthrium Chilton, 1883

AphiaID

249181 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:249181)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Plakarthrium typicum Chilton, 1883 (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Plakarthriidae Hansen, 1905
Plakarthriinae Hansen, 1905

Parent

Plakarthriidae Hansen, 1905

Original name

Plakarthrium Chilton, 1883

Synonymised names

Chelonidium Pfeffer, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Plakarthrium australiense Poore & Brandt, 2001
Species Plakarthrium punctatissimum (Pfeffer, 1887)
Species Plakarthrium typicum Chilton, 1883

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Chilton, C. (1883). Further additions to our knowledge of the New Zealand Crustacea. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 15, 69-86; pls. 1-3. [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Plakarthrium Chilton, 1883. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=249181 on 2026-07-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-11-28 15:20:16Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

2019-05-21 08:22:23Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-07-24 17:59:34Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Chilton, C. (1883). Further additions to our knowledge of the New Zealand Crustacea. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 15, 69-86; pls. 1-3. [details]

original description (of Chelonidium Pfeffer, 1887) Pfeffer, G. (1887). Die Krebse von Süd-Georgien nach der Ausbeute der Deutschen Station 1882-83. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten. 4: 43-150, pls. 1-7., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10084 [details]

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]

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Introduced: alien

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