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 Nannoniscidae > Genus Austroniscus

Austroniscus groenlandicus (Hansen, 1916)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Nannoniscella Hansen, 1916

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Austroniscus*	Vanhöffen, 1914	accepted genus name
*Nannoniscella*	Hansen, 1916	synonym

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].
source of synonymy	Birstein Y.A. (1962). Uber eine neue Art der Gattung Austroniscus Vanhoffen (Crustacea,Isopoda,Asellota) aus den grossen Tiefen des nordwestlichen Teiles des Stillen Ozeans. Izd. Zav. Ribarst. N.R. Skopje, 3, 2, 33-37.
new combination reference	Wolff, T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. Galathea Report. 6: 7–320, pl. 1–19.

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. Austroniscus groenlandicus (Hansen, 1916). 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:118774