Bathynomus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879

Sidabalok, Conni M., Wong, Helen P. - S. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2020, Description of the supergiant isopod Bathynomus raksasa sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from southern Java, the first record of the genus from Indonesia, ZooKeys 947, pp. 39-52 : 39

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.947.53906

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scientific name

Bathynomus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
status

 

Genus Bathynomus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879

Restricted synonymy.

A. Milne-Edwards, 1879: 21.- Bruce 1986: 126.- Kensley and Schotte 1989: 129.- Lowry and Dempsey 2006: 168.

Remarks.

The taxonomy of Bathynomus has been reviewed by Bruce (1986), Magalhães and Young (2003), with most recently by Lowry and Dempsey (2006). Two new species were added by Shipley et al. (2016) and Kou et al. (2017). The most recent review on Bathynomus fossils was done by Hyžný et al. (2019).

Type species.

Bathynomus giganteus A. Milne-Edwards 1879; by monotypy.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Cirolanidae