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

Gnathia Leach, 1814

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anceus*	Risso, 1816	synonym

Children

Gnathia albescens Hansen, 1916
Gnathia dentata (G. O. Sars, 1872)
Gnathia fallax Monod, 1926
Gnathia illepida Monod, 1925
Gnathia inopinata Monod, 1925
Gnathia maxillaris (Montagu, 1804)
Gnathia oxyuraea (Lilljeborg, 1855)
Gnathia panousei Daguerre de Hureaux, 1971
Gnathia phallonajopsis Monod, 1925
Gnathia serrulatifrons Monod, 1926
Gnathia teissieri Cals, 1972
Gnathia venusta Monod, 1925
Gnathia vorax (Lucas, 1849)

Literature

original description	Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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].

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. Gnathia Leach, 1814. 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:118437