MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Jaera Leach, 1814

MSBIAS taxon details

Jaera Leach, 1814

AphiaID

118364 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118364)

Classification

Status

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Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Jaera albifrons Leach, 1814 represented as Jaera (Jaera) albifrons Leach, 1814 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Janiridae G. O. Sars, 1897

Original name

Jaera Leach, 1814

Synonymised names

Jaera (Metajaera) Verhoeff, 1943 · unaccepted > unavailable name (no type species selected)

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Subgenus Jaera (Jaera) Leach, 1814
1. Species Jaera (Jaera) albifrons Leach, 1814
2. Species Jaera (Jaera) forsmani Bocquet, 1950
3. Species Jaera (Jaera) ischiosetosa Forsman, 1949
4. Species Jaera (Jaera) istri Veuille, 1979
5. Species Jaera (Jaera) nordmanni (Rathke, 1836)
6. Species Jaera (Jaera) praehirsuta Forsman, 1949
7. Species Jaera (Jaera) sarsi Valkanov, 1936
Species Jaera hopeana Costa, 1853
Subgenus Jaera (Metajaera) Verhoeff, 1943 accepted as Jaera Leach, 1814 (unaccepted > unavailable name, no type species selected)
1. Species Jaera (Metajaera) hopeana Costa, 1853 accepted as Jaera hopeana Costa, 1853 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Jaera albifrons Leach, 1814 represented as Jaera (Jaera) albifrons Leach, 1814
Species Jaera forsmani Bocquet, 1950 represented as Jaera (Jaera) forsmani Bocquet, 1950
Species Jaera ischiosetosa Forsman, 1949 represented as Jaera (Jaera) ischiosetosa Forsman, 1949
Species Jaera nordmanni (Rathke, 1836) represented as Jaera (Jaera) nordmanni (Rathke, 1836)
Species Jaera praehirsuta Forsman, 1949 represented as Jaera (Jaera) praehirsuta Forsman, 1949
Species Jaera sarsi Valkanov, 1936 represented as Jaera (Jaera) sarsi Valkanov, 1936

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Jaera Leach, 1814. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118364 on 2025-06-01

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Jaera Leach, 1814. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118364 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2019-06-24 11:44:12Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-03-26 23:10:08Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640 [details]

original description (of Jaera (Metajaera) Verhoeff, 1943) Verhoeff, K. W. (1943). Zur Morphologie, Ökologie und Systematik von Sphaeroma, Europosphaera und Jaera (85. Isopoden-Aufsatz). Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere. 40: 276-290. [details] Available for editors

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]

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]

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