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 Munnidae

Uromunna Menzies, 1962

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Munna (Metamunna)*	Fresi & Mazzella, 1974	synonym

Children

Uromunna petiti (Amar, 1948)
Uromunna similis (Fresi & Mazzella, 1974)

Literature

original description	Menzies, R. J. (1962). The zoogeography, ecology, and systematics of the Chilean marine isopods. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 2. 57(11): 1-162.
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
source of synonymy	Poore, G. C. B. (1984) Redefinition of Munna and Uromunna (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnidae), with descriptions of five species from coastal Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 96 (2): 61-81.
identification resource	Esquete, P. and Wilson, G. D. F. (2016). The genus Uromunna (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnidae) in New South Wales, Australia, with a key for all known species. Marine Biology Research. 12(5): 488-512.

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. Uromunna Menzies, 1962. 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:118375