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

Prochelator Hessler, 1970

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Prochelator abyssalis Hessler, 1970
Prochelator hampsoni Hessler, 1970
Prochelator incomitatus Hessler, 1970
Prochelator lateralis (G. O. Sars, 1899)
Prochelator litus Hessler, 1970
Prochelator uncatus Hessler, 1970

Literature

original description	Hessler, R. R. (1970). The Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) of the Gay Head - Bermuda Transect. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 15: 1-185.
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
identification resource	Golovan, O. A. (2015). Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the abyssal plain to the east of the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench: New data on diversity with the description of two new species. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 111: 256-278.

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. Prochelator Hessler, 1970. 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:118328