Family TAINISOPIDAE Wilson, 2003
- Tainisopidae Wilson, G.D.F. 2003. A new genus of Tainisopidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Zootaxa 245: 1-20 [3].
Introduction
The genus Tainisopus Wilson & Ponder, 1992 was erected without allocation to a family and included in Isopoda Enigmata in the 2002 Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 19.2A (in Poore 2002). It is type genus of this family.
General References
Keable, S.J. & Wilson, G.D.F. 2006. New species of Pygolabis Wilson, 2003 (Isopoda, Tainisopidae, Crustacea) from Western Australia. Zootaxa 1116: 1-27 (key to species of family)
Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp.