North Sea Benthos Survey (NSBS)

WoRMS taxon details

Astacilla longicornis (Sowerby, 1806)

AphiaID

119024 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119024)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Astacilla Cordiner, 1793

Parent

Astacilla Cordiner, 1793

Original name

Oniscus longicornis Sowerby, 1806

Synonymised names

Arcturus deshayesii Lucas, 1846 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Arcturus linearis Stebbing, 1878 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Leachia gracilis Goodsir, 1841 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Leacia lacertosa Johnston, 1825 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Oniscus longicornis Sowerby, 1806 · unaccepted (basionym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Oniscus longicornis Sowerby, 1806) Sowerby, J. (1805). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, No.2: 13-21, pls.5-8., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623 [details]

Descriptive notes

Depth range 18-752

Depth range 18-752 [details]

Taxonomic 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. Astacilla longicornis (Sowerby, 1806). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119024 on 2025-04-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-03 13:02:48Z

checked

Schotte, Marilyn

2009-02-20 10:38:06Z

changed

Poore, Gary C.B.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Oniscus longicornis Sowerby, 1806) Sowerby, J. (1805). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, No.2: 13-21, pls.5-8., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623 [details]

original description (of Arcturus deshayesii Lucas, 1846) Lucas, H. (1846). Crustacés, arachnides, myriapodes, et hexapodes. Exploration Scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842. Sciences physiques. Zoologie I. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés. (Paris). 1:1-403, pls. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46116712 [details]

original description (of Leacia lacertosa Johnston, 1825) Johnston, G. (1825). Contributions to the British fauna [Article 2]. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. 13: 218-222., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50894122 [details]

original description (of Arcturus linearis Stebbing, 1878) Stebbing, T. R. R. (1878). Notes on sessile-eyed crustaceans, with description of a new species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5. 1(1): 31-37, pl. 5. [details]

original description (of Leachia gracilis Goodsir, 1841) Goodsir, H.D.S. (1841). On two new species of Leachia. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 30, 309-313, pl. 6., available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/edinburghnewphil31edin [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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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]