Isopoda

Isopoda name details

Caecidotea communis (Say, 1818)

259539 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:259539)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Malacostraca
  7. Eumalacostraca
  8. Peracarida
  9. Isopoda
  10. Asellota
  11. Aselloidea
  12. Asellidae
  13. Caecidotea
  14. Caecidotea communis
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Conasellus communis (Say, 1818)
Species
Caecidotea Packard, 1871
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Asellus communis Say, 1818) Say, T. (1818). An account of the Crustacea of the United States (concluded). <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 1(2): 423-441. [details] OpenAccess publication
Note Pennsylvania, USA  
From editor or global species database
type locality Pennsylvania, USA [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. Caecidotea communis (Say, 1818). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=259539 on 2026-09-03
Date
action
by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2025-12-04 01:09:24Z
changed
Merrin, Kelly L.

original description (of Asellus communis Say, 1818) Say, T. (1818). An account of the Crustacea of the United States (concluded). <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 1(2): 423-441. [details] OpenAccess publication

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] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Habitat Freshwater river. [details]

type locality Pennsylvania, USA [details]
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caecidotea communis) 
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 10 proteins) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ CRT 66702 Caecidotea communis lateral 6x photo) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ CRT 66702 Caecidotea communis lateral tail 18x photo) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (246 records) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091076) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed

Website and databases developed and hosted by Flanders Marine Institute · Page generated on 2026-09-08 11:58:32+02:00 · Contact: Data Management Team