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 Lepidocharontidae

Microcharon Boyko, 2024

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Duslenia*	Lévi, 1950	synonym
*Microcharon*	Karaman, 1934	synonym; nom. inval.

Children

Microcharon acherontis Chappuis, 1942
Microcharon agripensis Galassi, De Laurentiis & Pesce, 1995
Microcharon angelicae Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon angelieri Coineau, 1963
Microcharon antonellae Galassi, 1991
Microcharon apolloniacus Cvetkov, 1964
Microcharon arganoi Pesce & Tete, 1978
Microcharon boui Coineau, 1968
Microcharon boutini (Boulanouar, Yacoubi-Khebiza, Messouli & Coineau, 1995)
Microcharon bureschi Cvetkov, 1976
Microcharon coineauae Galhano, 1970
Microcharon comasi Coineau, 1985
Microcharon doueti Coineau, 1968
Microcharon eurydices Cvetkov, 1965
Microcharon harrisi (Spooner, 1959)
Microcharon hercegovinensis Karaman, 1959
Microcharon hispanicus Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon juberthiei Coineau, 1968
Microcharon latus Karaman, 1934
Microcharon letiziae Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon longistylus Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon major Karaman, 1933
Microcharon margalefi Sabater & de Manuel, 1988
Microcharon meijersae Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon motasi Serban, 1964
Microcharon notenboomi Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon nuragicus Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon oltenicus Serban, 1964
Microcharon orghidani Serban, 1964
Microcharon orphei Cvetkov, 1977
Microcharon othrys Argano & Pesce, 1979
Microcharon phlegentonis Cvetkov, 1967
Microcharon profundalis Karaman, 1940
Microcharon reginae Dole & Coineau, 1988
Microcharon rouchi Coineau, 1968
Microcharon silverii Pesce & Galassi, 1988
Microcharon sisyphus Chappuis & Delamare Deboutteville, 1954
Microcharon stygius Karaman, 1933
Microcharon thracicus Cvetkov, 1965
Microcharon ullae Pesce, 1981

Literature

original description	Boyko, C. B. (2024). Taxonomic notes and nomenclatural corrections in Crustacea: Isopoda (exclusive of Oniscidea). Zootaxa. 5497(3): 409–425.

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. Microcharon Boyko, 2024. 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:1767292

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Microcharon Boyko, 2024. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/39c3f22d-2d47-4300-bd63-d922e8566d2d