Tridentella Richardson, 1905

Bruce, Niel L, 2008, New species of Tridentella Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Cymothoida: Tridentellidae), tropical marine isopod crustaceans from the Banda Sea, Indonesia, Zootaxa 1734, pp. 43-58 : 44

Tridentella Richardson, 1905

Restricted synonymy: Brandt & Poore, 2001: 200.

Remarks: Many species of Tridentella are highly ornamented, some with cephalic processes, or with heavily spinose dorsal surfaces, and the pleotelson often has longitudinal ridges and serrate lateral margins. A few species totally lack any form of ornamentation, these being T. japonica Thielemann, 1910 , T. recava Bowman, 1986 , T. laevicephalax Menzies, 1962 ( Carvacho 1977) and now Tridentella memikat sp. nov. and Tridentella tanimbar sp. nov.; Tridentella brandtae sp. nov., is so weakly nodulose as to appear without ornamentation. Brandt and Poore (2001) list the species known to date.