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FIGURE 2. Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1836 in Nomenclatural and taxonomic changes in parasitic isopods (Isopoda: Epicaridea) including two new families and note on the questionable association between monogeneans and bopyrids

  • 1. Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549, U.S.A. and Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West @79 Street, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • 2. Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549, U.S.A.

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FIGURE 2. Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1836 with Bopyrus crangorum (Fabricius, 1798). A, Palaemon adspersus, nonovigerous female (10.6 mm CL, not including length of rostrum) showing swelled right branchial chamber from which female and male of B. crangorum were removed. B, same specimen in A, lateral view. C, B. crangorum, neotype female (RMNH.CRUS. I.1667), dorsal view. D, same specimen in C, ventral view (note: most of eggs in brood chamber removed). E, B. crangorum, male, dorsal view. F, same specimen in E, ventral view. Scale bars: A, B = 5 mm; C, D = 3 mm; E, F = 1 mm.

Notes

Published as part of Boyko, Christopher B. & Williams, Jason D., 2023, Nomenclatural and taxonomic changes in parasitic isopods (Isopoda: Epicaridea) including two new families and note on the questionable association between monogeneans and bopyrids, pp. 251-269 in Zootaxa 5258 (3) on page 256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7780211

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