Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Asellota > Superfamily Janiroidea > Family Ischnomesidae > Genus Gracilimesus

Gracilimesus tropicalis (Menzies, 1962)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gracilimesus*	Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Haplomesus tropicalis*	Menzies, 1962	basionym
*Haplomesus tropicalis*	Menzies, 1962	synonym

Literature

original description	Menzies, R. J. (1962) The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. Vema Research Series 1: 79-206.
additional source	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.
new combination reference	Kavanagh, F. A. and G. D. F. Wilson (2007) Revision of the genus Haplomesus (Isopoda:Asellota:Ischnomesidae) with erection of four new genera. Invertebrate Systematics 21: 487-535.

Genbank

Taxonomy

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External Links

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Citation

Wilson, George D.F. (2014). Gracilimesus tropicalis (Menzies, 1962). In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:579427