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

Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Ischnomesini*	Hansen, 1916	synonym

Children

Cornuamesus Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007
Gracilimesus Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007
Haplomesus Richardson, 1908
Heteromesus Richardson, 1908
Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908

Literature

original description	Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. The Danish Ingolf–Expedition. 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls.
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].
identification resource	Kavanagh, F.A.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2007). Revision of the genus Haplomesus (Isopoda: Asellota: Ischnomesidae) with erection of four new genera. Invertebrate Systematics. 21(5): 487-535.
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. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 111: 279-293.

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. Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916. 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:118256