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Bopyrione toloensis Markham 1982

Description

Bopyrione toloensis Markham, 1982

Bopyrione toloensis Markham, 1982: 351–354, figs. 16–17 [Hong Kong, infesting Alpheus microstylus? (Bate, 1888)]; Markham, 1985a: 59; Morton, 2003: 37; Li, 2003: 140, 157; Liu, 2008: 691.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

HOSTS AND LOCALITIES: Infesting Alpheus microstylus? (Bate, 1888 (Alpheidae)), Hong Kong.

REMARKS: The host was only provisionally identified as A. microstylus in Markham (1982).

KEY TO THE FIVE SPECIES OF BOPYRIONE BOURDON AND MARKHAM, 1980

1a. Head triangular, pleopods large, flaplike.. 2 1b. Head subovate, pleopods small, tubercular

............................... 4

2a. Anterior margin of head entire........ 3

2b. Anterior margin of head crenulate................. B. toloensis Markham, 1982

3a. Eyes present, brood pouch closed............... B. longicapitata Markham, 1982

3b. Eyes lacking, brood pouch medially open............. B. multifeminae, n. sp.

4a. First four pereomeres with dorsolateral bosses..... B. woodmasoni (Chopra, 1923)

4b. All pereomeres without dorsolateral bosses.. B. synalphei Bourdon and Markham, 1980

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 41, DOI: 10.1206/amnb-921-00-01.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4612506

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Markham
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Isopoda
Family
Bopyridae
Genus
Bopyrione
Species
toloensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bopyrione toloensis Markham, 1982 sec. An, Boyko & Li, 2015

References

  • Markham, J. C. 1982. Bopyrid isopods parasitic on decapod crustaceans in Hong Kong and Southern China. In B. Morton and C. K. Tseng (editors), Proceedings of the First International Marine Biological Workshop: the marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China, Hong Kong, 1980: 325 - 391. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Bate, C. S. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura dredged by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Reports on the Scientific results of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 76. Zoology 24: i- xc, 1 - 918, 927 - 942, pls. 1 - 148.
  • 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.
  • Morton, B. 2003. Hong Kong' s international malacological wetland and marine biological workshops (1977 - 1998): changing local attitudes towards marine conservation. In B. Morton (editor), Perspectives on marine environmental change in Hong Kong and southern China, 1977 - 2001. Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong 21 - 26 October 2001: 31 - 71. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Li, L. 2003. Hong Kong' s isopods. In B. Morton (editor), Perspectives on marine environmental change in Hong Kong and southern China, 1977 - 2001. Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong 21 - 26 October 2001: 137 - 166. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Liu, R. E. (editor). 2008. Checklist of marine biota of China seas. Beijing: Science Press, 1267 pp.
  • Markham, J. C. 1980. A new species of Dicropleon and new records of three other species of bopyrid isopods from the Indian Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science 30: 623 - 633.
  • Chopra, B. 1923. Bopyrid isopods parasitic on Indian Decapoda Macrura. Records of the Indian Museum 25: 411 - 550, pls. 11 - 21.
  • Bourdon, R. and J. C. Markham. 1980. A new genus and species of bopyrid isopod infesting alpheid shrimps of the genus Synalpheus in the western Atlantic Ocean. Zoologische Mededelingen 55: 221 - 230.