Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Cymothoida > Superfamily Cymothooidea > Family Gnathiidae > Genus Caecognathia

Caecognathia stygia (Sars G.O., 1877)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Caecognathia*	Dollfus, 1901	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1877). Prodromus descriptionis crustaceorum et pycnogonidarum, quae in expeditione norvegica anno 1876, observavit G. O. Sars. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, Kristiania (Oslo) 2: 337-371.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 315-321
additional source	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
GBIF

Citation

Schotte, M. (2014). Caecognathia stygia (Sars G.O., 1877). In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118986