WoRMS taxon details
Carpias Richardson, 1902
118362 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118362)
accepted
Genus
Bagatus Nobili, 1906 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Janatus Carvacho, 1983 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Carpias algicola (Miller, 1941)
- Species Carpias asterphilous Pires, 1995
- Species Carpias bermudensis Richardson, 1902
- Species Carpias brachydactylus (Pires, 1982)
- Species Carpias brucei (Monod, 1975)
- Species Carpias crosslandi (Stebbing, 1910)
- Species Carpias deodatus Müller, 1992
- Species Carpias floridensis Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983
- Species Carpias galloprovincialis (Amar, 1950)
- Species Carpias harrietae Pires, 1981
- Species Carpias ichthyoxenos (Monod, 1961)
- Species Carpias longidactylus (Nordenstam, 1946)
- Species Carpias longimanus (Pillai, 1954)
- Species Carpias minutus (Richardson, 1902)
- Species Carpias montaguensis Doti & Wilson, 2010
- Species Carpias mossambica Kensley & Schotte, 2002
- Species Carpias nana (Stebbing, 1905)
- Species Carpias nereus (Pires, 1982)
- Species Carpias parvus (Omer-Cooper, 1921)
- Species Carpias platydactylus (Nobili, 1906)
- Species Carpias punctatus (Kensley, 1984)
- Species Carpias serricaudus (Menzies & Glynn, 1968)
- Species Carpias stebbingi (Monod, 1933)
- Species Carpias stylodactylus (Nobili, 1906)
- Species Carpias triocellatus (Müller, 1992)
- Species Carpias triton (Pires, 1982)
- Species Carpias villalobosi (Carvacho, 1983)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Richardson, H. (1902). The marine and terrestrial isopods of the Bermudas, with descriptions of new genera and species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences.</em> 11(1): 277-310, pls. 37-40. [details] 
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. Carpias Richardson, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118362 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
original description
Richardson, H. (1902). The marine and terrestrial isopods of the Bermudas, with descriptions of new genera and species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences.</em> 11(1): 277-310, pls. 37-40. [details]
original description (of Bagatus Nobili, 1906) Nobili, G. (1906). Diagnoses préliminaires de Crustacés, Décapodes et Isopodes nouveaux recueillis par M. le Dr. G. Seurat aux îles Touamotou. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 12 (12): 256-270. [details]
original description (of Janatus Carvacho, 1983) Carvacho, A. (1983). Asellota del Golfo de California, con descripcion de dos nuevos generos y dos neuvas especies (Crustacea, Isopoda). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 24: 281-295. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Bagatus Nobili, 1906) Nobili, G. (1906). Diagnoses préliminaires de Crustacés, Décapodes et Isopodes nouveaux recueillis par M. le Dr. G. Seurat aux îles Touamotou. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 12 (12): 256-270. [details]
original description (of Janatus Carvacho, 1983) Carvacho, A. (1983). Asellota del Golfo de California, con descripcion de dos nuevos generos y dos neuvas especies (Crustacea, Isopoda). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 24: 281-295. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Doti, B.L.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2010). The genera <i>Carpias</i> Richardson, <i>Ianiropsis</i> Sars and <i>Janaira</i> Moreira & Pires (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae) from Australia, with description of three new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2625: 1-39., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02625p039.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
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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]. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Remark The species of the genus Carpias are notoriously diffcult to identify,not least because of the variation with age or moult-stage of the male pereopod 1, this latter being the most useful single feature to distinguish species. The distribution of the species is further complicated by the fact that these tiny animals have been shown to raft on floating algae (Morris and Mogelberg, 1973), and are also probably capable of clinging to fouling organisms on floating objects including ships. Eight species, including the three reported in Kensley & Schotte (2002), have been recorded from the Indian Ocean. Several have very wide distributions in more than one ocean. Unfortunately, until a range of material from each locality is examined, identifications will remain uncertain, and identification keys will have little meaning (Kensley & Schotte, 2002). [details]
