Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda

Asellota Latreille, 1802

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aselloidea Latreille, 1802
Asellota incertae sedis
Gnathostenetroidoidea Kussakin, 1967
Janiroidea G. O. Sars, 1897
Stenasellidae
Stenetrioidea Hansen, 1905

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ミズムシ亜目

Literature

original description	Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 14 vols.:413 pp.
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].
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
identification resource	Wolff, T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. Galathea Report. 6: 7–320, pl. 1–19.
identification resource	Menzies, R. J. (1962). The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. Vema Research Series. 1: 79-206.

Genbank

Citation

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. Asellota. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:13794

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Asellota Latreille, 1802. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/975cb923-9023-4942-9c4a-d4ac0ddc9480