WoRMS name details

Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus
Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus

264152  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:264152)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Asellota (Suborder)
  11. Aselloidea (Superfamily)
  12. Asellidae (Family)
  13. Asellus (Genus)
  14. Asellus (Asellus) (Subgenus)
  15. Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus (Species)
alternative representation
Species
Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · alternative representation
Asellus patoni Collinge, 1945 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Asellus patoni var. maculata Collinge, 1945 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Asellus patoni var. nigrescens Collinge, 1945 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Oniscus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Oniscus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note river Fyrisån, Uppsala, Sweden  
Type locality river Fyrisån, Uppsala, Sweden [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=264152 on 2025-05-11
Date
action
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2019-06-13 14:48:37Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.
2022-05-16 12:25:41Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.
2023-09-01 02:28:00Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Oniscus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record 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] 

Other

context source (Schelde) Van Ryckegem, G.; Van Braeckel, A.; Elsen, R.; Speybroeck, J.; Vandevoorde, B.; Mertens, W.; Breine, J.; Van den Bergh, E. (2014). MONEOS – Geïntegreerd datarapport: INBO: toestand Zeeschelde 2013 Monitoringsoverzicht en 1ste lijnsrapportage Geomorfologie, diversiteit Habitats en diversiteit Soorten. <em>Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, INBO.R.2014.2646963. Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO): Brussel.</em> 137 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Type locality river Fyrisån, Uppsala, Sweden [details]
    Definitions

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Dutch zoetwaterpissebed  [details]
English waterlouse [from synonym]water sowbug [from synonym]water slater [from synonym]water louse [from synonym]water hoglouse [from synonym]aquatic sowbug [from synonym]  [details]
German Wasserassel [from synonym]Gemeine Wasserassel [from synonym]  [details]
Polish ośliczka pospolita  [details]
To Barcode of Life (1247 barcodes) (from synonym Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (555 publications) (from synonym Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications) (from synonym Oniscus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Asellus aquaticus) (from synonym Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To GenBank (23033 nucleotides; 698 proteins) (from synonym Oniscus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758)
To GenBank (23033 nucleotides; 698 proteins) (from synonym Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To NHMUK collection (Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758); NHMUK:ecatalogue:9169421) (from synonym Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To PESI (from synonym Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (24 records) (from synonym Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758))
From editor or global species database
Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus
Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus
Unreviewed
To NHMUK collection (Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758); NHMUK:ecatalogue:9169421)
To NHMUK collection (Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758); NHMUK:ecatalogue:9169421)
Hosted externally, from synonym