Marine Species Traits - Caecidotea laticaudata (Williams, 1970)

WoRMS taxon details

Caecidotea laticaudata (Williams, 1970)

AphiaID

259561 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:259561)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Caecidotea Packard, 1871

Original name

Asellus laticaudata Williams, 1970

Synonymised names

Asellus laticaudata Williams, 1970 · unaccepted (basionym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Williams, W. D. (1970) A revision of North American epigean species of Asellus (Crustacea: Isopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 49: 1-79. [details]

(of Asellus laticaudata Williams, 1970) Williams, W. D. (1970) A revision of North American epigean species of Asellus (Crustacea: Isopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 49: 1-79. [details]

Type data

Note Louisiana, USA

From editor or global species database

type locality Louisiana, USA [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. Caecidotea laticaudata (Williams, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=259561 on 2025-06-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-03 13:02:48Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Williams, W. D. (1970) A revision of North American epigean species of Asellus (Crustacea: Isopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 49: 1-79. [details]

original description (of Asellus laticaudata Williams, 1970) Williams, W. D. (1970) A revision of North American epigean species of Asellus (Crustacea: Isopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 49: 1-79. [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]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Habitat roadside ditch [details]

type locality Louisiana, USA [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (27 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Asellus laticaudata Williams, 1970)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 122055) (from synonym Asellus laticaudata Williams, 1970)
To ITIS