Bopyrella Bonnier 1900
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Bopyrella Bonnier, 1900
DIAGNOSIS: Female: Body outline elliptical, asymmetrical. Head fused completely or at least medially with first pereomere. Maxilliped with setose palp. Coxal plates very reduced; dorsolateral bosses usually on first four pereomeres. Barbula with two pairs of projections on each side. Brood pouch widely open. All pereomeres fused, segments indicated laterally or dorsally. Four or five biramous flaplike pleopods. Uropods absent.
Male: Head and first pereomere usually fused, juncture indicated by lateral indentations. Pleon much wider than pereon, especially first pleomere. Pleopods and uropods lacking.
TYPE SPECIES: Bopyrella thomsoni Bonnier, 1900, by original designation.
OTHER SPECIES: Bopyrella articulata, n. sp., B. calmani (Richardson, 1905), B. harmopleon Bowman, 1956, B. malensis Bourdon, 1980a, B. moluccensis Bourdon, 1983, B. tanytelson Markham, 1985.
REMARKS: Bonnier (1900) erected this genus for Bopyrella thomsoni infesting Alpheus strenuus Dana, 1852, from “îles des Amis” (= Tonga). Besides the type species, Bonnier (1900) questionably included three other species in Bopyrella: Bopyrus palaemonis Risso, 1816 (nomen dubium), Bopyrina nitescens Giard and Bonnier, 1890 (nomen nudum), and Bopyrus alphei Giard and Bonnier, 1890 (nomen nudum; = Bopyrus alphei Richardson, 1900 = Capitetragonia alphei (Richardson, 1900), n. comb., herein). Bourdon (1980a) reviewed Bopyrella and divided it into three groups according to the degree of fusion of the female pleon. Markham (1985a) concluded that the degree of fusion of the female pleon was important at the generic level and transferred 30 species in Bopy ‐ rella to other genera (e.g., Probopyria [= Capitetragonia], Parabopyrella, Probopyrinella, and Synsynella). He retained only five species in Bopyrella, all parasitizing alpheid hosts: B. thomsoni, B. malensis Bourdon, 1980a, from the Maldives, B. macginitiei Shiino, 1964, from California, B. harmopleon Bowman, 1956, from Venezuela, and B. calmani (Richardson, 1905), from California. Sassaman et al. (1984) regarded B. macginitiei as a synonym of B. calmani. Bourdon (1983) described B. moluccensis as a new species from the Moluccas and Markham (1985b) described B. tanytelson from Thailand. Therefore, the genus Bopyrella currently includes six well-described species (Boyko, 2014) plus the poorly known B. palaemonis. An eighth species is described herein.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bopyridae
- Genus
- Bopyrella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Isopoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonnier
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bopyrella Bonnier, 1900 sec. An, Boyko & Li, 2015
References
- Bonnier, J. 1900. Contribution a l' etude des epicarides. Les Bopyridae. Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux 8: 1 - 476, pls. 1 - 41.
- Bowman, T. E. 1956. Una especie nueva de Bopyrella (Crustacea: Isopoda) de los Roques, Venezuela. Novedades Cientificas Contribuciones Occasionales del Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Serie Zoologica 19: 1 - 4.
- Bourdon, R. 1980 a. Les especes du genre Bopyrella J. Bonnier (Crustacea, Isopoda, Bopyridae). Bulletin du Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle (4 e ser.) 2 (A): 185 - 236.
- Dana J. D. 1852. Crustacea, part I. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838 - 42 under the command of Ch. Wilkes U. S. N. 13: i- viii + 1 - 685. Philadelphia: C. Sherman.
- Risso, A. 1816. Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces des Environs de Nice. Librairie Grecque-Latine-Allemande, Paris.
- Giard, A., and J. Bonnier. 1890. Prodrome d' une monographie des epicarides du Golfe de Naples. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 22: 367 - 391.
- Richardson, H. 1900. Synopses of North-American Invertebrates. VIII. The Isopoda. - Part II. Asellota, Oniscoidea, Epicaridea. American Naturalist 34: 295 - 309.
- 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.
- Shiino, S. M. 1964. On three bopyrid isopods from California. Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie 5: 19 - 25.
- Sassaman, C., G. A. Schultz, and R. Garthwaite. 1984. Host, synonymy, and parasitic incidence of Bopy - rella calmani (Richardson) from central California (Isopoda: Epicaridea: Bopyridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97: 645 - 654.
- Markham, J. C. 1985 b. Additions to the bopyrid isopod fauna of Thailand. Zoologische Verhandelingen 224: 1 - 63.
- Boyko, C. B. 2014. Bopyrinae Rafinesque, 1815. In M. Schotte et al. (editors), World marine, freshwater and terrestrial isopod crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Online resource (http: // www. marinespecies. org / aphia. php? p = taxdetailsandid = 589329 on 2014 - 04 - 07).