WoRMS taxon details
Limnoriidae White, 1850
118275 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118275)
accepted
Family
Limnoria Leach, 1814 (type by original designation)
Limnoriadae White, 1850 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
Lynseiidae Poore, 1987 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Genus Limnoria Leach, 1814
- Genus Lynseia Poore, 1987
- Genus Paralimnoria Menzies, 1957
- Genus Phycolimnoria Menzies, 1957 accepted as Limnoria Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Limnoriadae White, 1850) White, A. (1850). List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV.—Crustacea. <em>London: British Museum.</em> i-iv + 1-141. [details] 
Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Limnoriidae White, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118275 on 2025-05-11
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Limnoriadae White, 1850) White, A. (1850). List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV.—Crustacea. <em>London: British Museum.</em> i-iv + 1-141. [details]
original description (of Lynseiidae Poore, 1987) Poore, G. C. B. (1987). Lynseiidae (Isopoda: Flabellifera), a new monotypic family from Australia. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 7(2): 258-264. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Lynseiidae Poore, 1987) Poore, G. C. B. (1987). Lynseiidae (Isopoda: Flabellifera), a new monotypic family from Australia. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 7(2): 258-264. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 17: 893-923. [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
[request]additional source Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 17: 893-923. [details] Available for editors
[request]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
