original description
(of Haploniscus microcephalus Gamo, 1989) Gamo, S. (1989) Some bathyal cumacean and isopod crustaceans from the Okinawa Trough, the East China Sea, with descriptions of a new genus and five new species. Bulletin Biogeographical Society of Japan 44: 85-104. [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]
new combination reference
Park, J-Y. (2000) A revision of the isopod genus Mastigoniscus (Asellota, Haploniscidae) with descriptions of three new species. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologische Reihe 76(2): 195-229. [details]
From editor or global species database
type locality Okinawa Trench [details]