WoRMS taxon details
Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916
118256 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118256)
accepted
Family
Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908 (type by original designation)
Ischnomesini Hansen, 1916 · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Genus Contrarimesus Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007
- Genus Cornuamesus Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007
- Genus Fortimesus Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007
- Genus Gracilimesus Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007
- Genus Haplomesus Richardson, 1908
- Genus Heteromesus Richardson, 1908
- Genus Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908
- Genus Mixomesus Wolff, 1962
- Genus Stylomesus Wolff, 1956
- Genus Bactromesus Wolff, 1962 accepted as Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Gomphomesus Wolff, 1962 accepted as Stylomesus Wolff, 1956 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Helomesus Wolff, 1962 accepted as Stylomesus Wolff, 1956 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Ischnosoma G. O. Sars, 1866 accepted as Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908 (unaccepted > junior homonym, junior homonym of Ischnosoma Agassiz, 1829 [Osteichthyes])
- Genus Rhabdomesus Richardson, 1908 accepted as Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [details] 
(of Ischnomesini Hansen, 1916) Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [details]
(of Ischnomesini Hansen, 1916) Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118256 on 2025-04-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [details]
original description (of Ischnomesini Hansen, 1916) Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [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]
original description (of Ischnomesini Hansen, 1916) Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [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]
Identification resource
identification resource
Kavanagh, F.A.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2007). Revision of the genus <i>Haplomesus</i> (Isopoda: Asellota: Ischnomesidae) with erection of four new genera. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 21(5): 487-535., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is06031 [details] Available for editors 
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identification resource Brandt, A., Stüven, J. K., Caurant, C. and Elsner, N. O. (2015). An account of the Ischnomesidae (Peracarida, Isopoda) from the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and abyssal plain (Northwest Pacific) with the description of two new species. <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 111: 279-293., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.08.014
page(s): 280; note: Key to genera [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]identification resource Brandt, A., Stüven, J. K., Caurant, C. and Elsner, N. O. (2015). An account of the Ischnomesidae (Peracarida, Isopoda) from the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and abyssal plain (Northwest Pacific) with the description of two new species. <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 111: 279-293., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.08.014
page(s): 280; note: Key to genera [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
