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

Idoteidae Samouelle, 1819

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Idoteadae*	Samouelle, 1819	synonym

Children

Edotia Guérin-Méneville, 1843
Idotea Fabricius, 1798
Paridotea Stebbing, 1900
Stenosoma Leach, 1814
Synidotea Harger, 1878
Synischia Hale, 1924

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヘラムシ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: tånglöss

Literature

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 & 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.
additional source	Poore, G. C. B.; Lew Ton, H. M. (1993). Idoteidae of Australia and New Zealand (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 7: 197-278.
identification resource	Song, J.-H.; Min, G.-S. (2017). A new genus and two new species of Idoteidae Samouelle, 1819 (Malacostraca: Isopoda: Valvifera) from South Korea, with a key to the genera of Idoteidae. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37(4): 413-425.

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. Idoteidae Samouelle, 1819. 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:118283