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 Ischnomesidae

Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ischnosoma*	G. O. Sars, 1866	junior homonym

Children

Ischnomesus bispinosus (G. O. Sars, 1866)
Ischnomesus chardyi Kussakin, 1988
Ischnomesus norvegicus Svavarsson, 1984

Literature

original description	Richardson, H. (1908). Some new Isopoda of the superfamily Aselloidea from the Atlantic coast of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 35(1633): 71-86.
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].
identification resource	Kavanagh, F. A., Frutos, I. & Sorbe, J. C. (2015). Ischnomesus harrietae sp. nov., a new benthic asellote (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ischnomesidae) from bathyal bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay. Zootaxa. 3911(2): 201.

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. Ischnomesus Richardson, 1908. 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:118358