IRMNG - Distomus Gaertner in Pallas, 1774

IRMNG taxon details

Distomus Gaertner in Pallas, 1774

IRMNG_ID

1371155 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1371155)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Styelidae Sluiter, 1895

Synonymised names

Arkas Gistl, 1848 · unaccepted

Diastoma Norman, 1857 · unaccepted

Psilostyela Sluiter, 1927 · unaccepted

Direct children (13)

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Species Distomus antiborealis Monniot, Monniot, Griffiths & Schleyer, 2001
Species Distomus diptychos Hartmeyer, 1919
Species Distomus fuscus Delle Chiaje, 1841
Species Distomus hupferi (Michaelsen, 1904)
Species Distomus malayensis Sluiter, 1919
Species Distomus pacificus Monniot & Monniot, 1991
Species Distomus rudentiformis (Sluiter, 1915)
Species Distomus variolosus Gaertner, 1774
Species Distomus crystallinus (Renier, 1804) accepted as Polycitor crystallinus (Renier, 1804)
Species Distomus elegans Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 accepted as Botryllus elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Species Distomus kukenthali (Gottschaldt, 1894) accepted as Eudistoma vitreum (Sars, 1851)
Species Distomus mamillaris Gaertner, 1774 accepted as Polycarpa mamillaris (Gaertner, 1774)
Species Distomus vitreum accepted as Eudistoma vitreum (Sars, 1851)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Pallas, P.S. (1774). Specilegia Zoologia. Berolini: G.A. Lange. fasc. 10. , available online at https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8736014
page(s): 40 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2025). Distomus Gaertner in Pallas, 1774. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1371155 on 2026-07-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2012-02-16 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 11:10:04Z

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original description Pallas, P.S. (1774). Specilegia Zoologia. Berolini: G.A. Lange. fasc. 10. , available online at https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8736014
page(s): 40 [details]

basis of record SN2000 unverified [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source CoL 2006 [details]

extant flag source SN2000 unverified [details]

habitat flag source Aphia 2006 [details]

original description (of Arkas Gistl, 1848) Gistel, J. (1848). Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller drei Reiche, fur Lehrer and Lernende, fur Schule und Haus. Abtheilung I. Thierreich. R. Hoffmann, Stuttgart. Pp. 1-626 [1850]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83234
page(s): 572 [details]

original description (of Diastoma Norman, 1857) Zoologist, 15,
page(s): 5707 [details]

original description (of Psilostyela Sluiter, 1927) Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc, 7
page(s): 69 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006) [details]

To BioNames database (from synonym Psilostyela Sluiter, 1927)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Psilostyela Sluiter, 1927)
To WoRMS (from synonym Psilostyela Sluiter, 1927)
To WoRMS