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 > Subgenus Asellus (Asellus) > Species Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus

Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Subspecies
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Oniscus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Asellus*	Geoffroy, 1762	accepted genus name

Subspecies group names

*Asellus aquaticus*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym; alternate representation

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.

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) aquaticus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758. 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:607633