Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)

Deep-Sea name details

Bactromesus Wolff, 1962

AphiaID

174940 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174940)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Stylomesus gracilis Birstein, 1960 accepted as Ischnomesus gracilis (Birstein, 1960) (type by original designation)

Parent

Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916

Original name

Bactromesus Wolff, 1962

Direct children (1)

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Species Bactromesus antarcticus Kussakin, 1982 accepted as Ischnomesus antarcticus (Kussakin, 1982) accepted as Ischnomesus kussakini Merrin & Poore, 2015 (As Ischnomesus antarcticus, a secondary homonym of Ischnomesus antarcticus Schultz, 1979)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Wolff, T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. <em>Galathea Report.</em> 6: 7–320, pl. 1–19., available online at https://samlinger.snm.ku.dk/en/library/library-of-the-natural-history-museum-of-denmark/galathea-report-1957-2005/ [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. Bactromesus Wolff, 1962. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174940 on 2025-05-29

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Bactromesus Wolff, 1962. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174940 on 2025-05-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-14 07:53:52Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2007-11-28 15:20:16Z

checked

Schotte, Marilyn

2008-03-24 03:16:48Z

changed

Wilson, George D.F.

2023-03-22 12:27:37Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-05-16 17:57:21Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Wolff, T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. <em>Galathea Report.</em> 6: 7–320, pl. 1–19., available online at https://samlinger.snm.ku.dk/en/library/library-of-the-natural-history-museum-of-denmark/galathea-report-1957-2005/ [details]

additional source 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

Synonymy by Kussakin, 1988, p 419 [details]

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