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WoRMS taxon details
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  [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]
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]
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]
 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]
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