Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Asellota > Superfamily Aselloidea > Family Asellidae > Genus Asellus

Asellus (Asellus) Geoffroy, 1762

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Asellus*	Geoffroy, 1762	accepted genus name

Children

Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature

basis of record	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	Sidorov, D. and Prevorčnik, S. (2016). A review of the genus Asellus E.L. Geoffery, 1762 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae) from the Asian part of Russia, with description of plesiomorphic A. turaniacus sp.n. Arthropoda Selecta. 25(2): 157-169.

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. Asellus (Asellus) Geoffroy, 1762. 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:249485