WoRMS taxon details
Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901
118435 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118435)
accepted
Genus
Anceus stygius G. O. Sars, 1877 accepted as Caecognathia stygia (G. O. Sars, 1877) (type by original designation)
Heterognathia Amar & Roman, 1974 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Caecognathia abyssorum (G. O. Sars, 1872)
- Species Caecognathia agwillisi (Seed, 1979)
- Species Caecognathia akaroensis (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia albescenoides (Menzies, 1962)
- Species Caecognathia alsalmiyah Khalaji-Pirbalouty & Al-Kandari, 2023
- Species Caecognathia andamanensis Svavarsson, 2002
- Species Caecognathia antarctica (Studer, 1884)
- Species Caecognathia arctica (Gurjanowa, 1929)
- Species Caecognathia bicolor (Hansen, 1916)
- Species Caecognathia branchyponera Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia caeca (Richardson, 1911)
- Species Caecognathia calva (Vanhöffen, 1914)
- Species Caecognathia cerina (Stimpson, 1853)
- Species Caecognathia coralliophila (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia crenulatifrons (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia cryptopais (Barnard, 1925)
- Species Caecognathia diacamma Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia dolichoderus Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia elongata (Krøyer, 1847)
- Species Caecognathia floridensis (Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983)
- Species Caecognathia galzini (Müller, 1989)
- Species Caecognathia gnamptogenys Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia hirsuta (G. O. Sars, 1877)
- Species Caecognathia hodgsoni (Vanhöffen, 1914)
- Species Caecognathia huberia Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia inferoculus Ota, Kakui & Shimomura, 2025
- Species Caecognathia leptanilla Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia multispinis (Richardson, 1908)
- Species Caecognathia nieli Svavarsson, 2006
- Species Caecognathia nipponensis (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia pacifica (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia paratrechia Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia pilosipes (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia polaris (Hodgson, 1902)
- Species Caecognathia polythrix (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia pustulosa (Hale, 1924)
- Species Caecognathia regalis (Monod, 1926)
- Species Caecognathia rhektos Kensley, Schotte & Poore, 2009
- Species Caecognathia robusta (G. O. Sars, 1879)
- Species Caecognathia sanctaecrucis (Schultz, 1972)
- Species Caecognathia schistifrons (Stebbing, 1912)
- Species Caecognathia serrata (Richardson, 1908)
- Species Caecognathia stygia (G. O. Sars, 1877)
- Species Caecognathia tida Ota, Kakui & Shimomura, 2025
- Species Caecognathia trachymesopus Cohen & Poore, 1994
- Species Caecognathia vanhoeffeni (Menzies, 1962)
- Species Caecognathia vemae (Menzies, 1962)
- Species Caecognathia wagneri (Monod, 1925)
- Species Caecognathia amakusaensis (Nunomura, 1992) accepted as Elaphognathia kikuchii (Nunomura, 1992) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Caecognathia consobrina (Monod, 1926) accepted as Gnathia consobrina Monod, 1926 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Caecognathia kikuchii (Nunomura, 1992) accepted as Elaphognathia kikuchii (Nunomura, 1992) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Caecognathia nasuta (Nunomura, 1992) accepted as Gnathia nasuta Nunomura, 1992 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Caecognathia saikaiensis (Nunomura, 1992) accepted as Elaphognathia kikuchii (Nunomura, 1992) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Caecognathia samariensis (Müller, 1988) accepted as Gnathia samariensis Müller, 1988 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Dollfus, A. (1901). Étude préliminaire des Gnathiidae recueillis dans les campagnes de l'<i>Hirondelle</i> et de <i>La Princesse Alice</i>. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 26: 239-246. [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. Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118435 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Dollfus, A. (1901). Étude préliminaire des Gnathiidae recueillis dans les campagnes de l'<i>Hirondelle</i> et de <i>La Princesse Alice</i>. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 26: 239-246. [details]
original description (of Heterognathia Amar & Roman, 1974) Amar, R.; Roman, M.-L. (1974). Invertébrés marins des XIIème et XVème expeditions Antarctiques françaises en Terre Adelie. XIV. Tanaidacés et Isopodes. <em>Tethys.</em> 5 (4): 561-599. [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 Heterognathia Amar & Roman, 1974) Amar, R.; Roman, M.-L. (1974). Invertébrés marins des XIIème et XVème expeditions Antarctiques françaises en Terre Adelie. XIV. Tanaidacés et Isopodes. <em>Tethys.</em> 5 (4): 561-599. [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]
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
[request]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
