Symmius Richardson 1904

• Main Author: Shimomura, Michitaka
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Chaetiliidae; Symmius; Antarctic; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234385; https://zenodo.org/record/6234385

Genus Symmius Richardson, 1904 Symmius Richardson, 1904: 39 -40; Nordenstam, 1933: 103; Poore, 1984; 76. Type species. Symmius caudatus Richardson, 1904. Other species. S. planus Nunomura, 1984, S. philippinensis Poore, 1991. Remarks. Richardon (1904) established the genus for the new species S. caudatus from off Osezaki, Izu Peninsula, Japan, from a depth of 109– 127 m. Poore (1984) redefined the genus with the redescription of the type species. A second species, S. planus was described by Nunomura (1984) from the Otsuchi Bay, Japan, from a depth of 4–10 m depth. A third species, S. philippinensis was described by Poore (1991) from Philippines, from a depth of 130– 137 m. The genus has a North West Pacific distribution. : Published as part of Shimomura, Michitaka, 2008, A new species of Symmius Richardson (Crustacea: Isopoda: Chaetiliidae) from Japan, pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1719 on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181052 : {"references": ["Richardson, H. (1904) Contributions to the natural history of the Isopoda. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 27, 1 - 89.", "Nordenstam, A. (1933) Marine Isopoda of the families Serolidae, Idotheidae, Pseudidotheidae, Arcturidae, Parasellidae and Stenetriidae mainly from the South Atlantic. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901 - 1903, 3 (1), 1 - 284.", "Poore, G. C. B. (1984) Clarification of the monotypic genera Chiriscus and Symmius (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 97 (1), 71 - 77.", "Nunomura, N. (1984) Two new idoteid Isopoda from Otsuchi Bay, northern Japan. Bulletin of the Toyama Science Museum, 6, 57 - 64.", "Poore, G. C. B. (1991) Crustacea Isopoda: Deep-sea Chaetiliidae (Valvifera) from New Caledonia and the Philippines. In: Crosnier, A. (Eds.), Resultats des campagnes Musorstom, Vol. 9. Memories du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, (Zoologie), 152, 139 - 153."]}