Published July 10, 2025 | Version v2.0
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Let the giants be named - Taxonomic description database for the isopod genus Bathynomus for the DELTA system

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research
  • 2. ROR icon University of Łódź

Description

Morphological characters have been extracted from recent relevant literature on Bathynomus, mainly from the six previously known species from the Atlantic Ocean and gulf of Mexico (Magalhães and Young 2003; Lowry and Dempsey 2006; Shipley et al. 2016; Huang et al. 2022). To simultaneously maximize compactness and taxonomic value of the species description, mainly characters that have previously been interpreted as diagnostic at the species level have been included, omitting others which played no role in species delimitation. A taxonomic database has been newly set up using DELTA (Dallwitz 1980, 1993; Dallwitz et al. 2006). Character states for all presently known Atlantic congeners have been scored to generate a natural language description and a new identification key (Dallwitz 1974) for the region as well as a species diagnosis. The species diagnosis has been composed based on the characters used in the identification key.

 

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References

Dallwitz MJ (1974) A flexible computer program for generating identification keys. Syst Biol 23:50–57. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/23.1.50

Dallwitz MJ (1980) A general system for coding taxonomic descriptions. Taxon 29:41–46.

Dallwitz MJ (1993) DELTA and INTKEY. In: Fortuner R (ed) Advances in computer methods for systematic biology: artificial intelligence, databases, computer vision. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp 287–296

Dallwitz MJ, Paine TA, Zurcher EJ (2006) User’s guide to the DELTA system: a general system for processing taxonomic descriptions. Httpdelta-Intkeycom 1–114.

Huang M-C, Kawai T, Bruce NL (2022) A new species of Bathynomus Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the southern Gulf of Mexico with a redescription of Bathynomus jamesi Kou, Chen and Li, 2017 from off Pratas Island, Taiwan. J Nat Hist 56:885–921.

Lowry JK, Dempsey K (2006) The giant deep-sea scavenger genus Bathynomus (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Trop Deep-Sea Benthos 24:163–192.

Magalhães N, Young PS (2003) Bathynomus A. Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda, Cirolanidae) da costa do Brasil, incluindo a descrição de uma nova espécie.

Shipley ON, Bruce NL, Violich M, Baco A, Morgan N, Rawlins S, Brooks EJ (2016) A new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic. Zootaxa 4147:82–88.

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Dates

Created
2023-12-14
First Draft
Updated
2025-07-10
Scored for all presently known species.