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Bathygyge Hansen 1897
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Bathygyge Hansen, 1897
DIAGNOSIS (after Markham, 1985a): Female: Body subcircular. Coxal plates large; oostegites about half covering marsupium. Small pleon sharply rotated, of six distinct separated pleomeres, lacking lateral plates, pleopods and uropods biramous.
Male: All pereomeres distinct. Propodus of each pereopod produced into ventrodistal projection receiving tip of dactylus. Pleon fused, ovate, bulbous, about 1/4 total body length, lacking appendages and most traces of segmentation.
TYPE SPECIES: Bathygyge grandis Hansen, 1897, by monotypy.
OTHER SPECIES: None.
Notes
Published as part of An, Jianmei, Boyko, Christopher B. & Li, Xinzheng, 2015, A Review Of Bopyrids (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) Parasitic On Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) From China, pp. 1-85 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (399) on page 29, DOI: 10.1206/amnb-921-00-01.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4612506
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hansen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Bopyridae
- Genus
- Bathygyge
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bathygyge Hansen, 1897 sec. An, Boyko & Li, 2015
References
- Hansen, H. J. 1897. Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer " Albatross, " during 1891, Lieut. Comman- der Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., commanding. XXII. The Isopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 31: 95 - 129, pls. 1 - 6, 1 map.
- Markham, J. C. 1985 a. A review of the bopyrid isopods infesting caridean shrimps in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, with special reference to those collected during the Hourglass Cruises in the Gulf of Mexico. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises 8: 1 - 156.