Anathelges foliosus
- 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.
Description
Anathelges foliosus (Kröyer in Gaimard, [1842]) n. comb.
(Fig 1)
= Bopyrus foliosus Kr ̂yer in Gaimard, [1842]
= Stegophrixus (sic) thompsoni Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 n. syn.
Distribution: Valparaíso, Chile (Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis 1931).
Hosts: “ Pagurus ” sp. (Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis 1931).
Remarks: There was never a text description published for Bopyrus foliosus and the availability of the name is from Kr̂yer’s plate 29, fig. 2, although the dating of this and the other plates in the volume is contentious (see note under Kr̂yer in Gaimard [1842] in References). As far as can be determined, this species has only been cited in the literature one time subsequent to its introduction as a brief mention by Spence Bate & Westwood (1867). The type specimens (ZMUC CRU-006445) are, unfortunately, missing from the ZMUC collection.
A comparison of the figures of Kr̂yer in Gaimard ([1842]) (Fig. 1A–D herein) with those of Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis (1931: figs. 87–89) (Fig. 1E, F herein) shows that Bopyrus foliosus is identical with Stegophrixus (sic) thompsoni Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 (currently Anathelges thompsoni (Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931)); the type material of S. thompsoni was examined by Boyko & Williams (2003). Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis (1931) based their description of S. thompsoni on a pair of Kr̂yer specimens from Valparaíso, Chile, which may be the same specimens that Kr̂yer used as the basis for the figures of B. foliosus, although there are some slight differences that make this not completely certain. As Stegophrixus (sic) thompsoni / Stegophryxus thompsoni / Anathelges thompsoni has only been mentioned in the literature a few times subsequent to the original description (Markham 1974b; Boyko & Williams 2003; Markham 2003; Diaz & Roccatagliata 2006; EspinosaPérez & Hendrickx 2006; Pardo et al. 2009; McDermott et al. 2010) and new material of this species has never been reported, there is no issue in recognizing B. foliosus as the senior synonym of Stegophiyxus (sic) thompsoni Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931, making Anathelges foliosus (Kr̂yer in Gaimard, [1842]) n. comb. the valid name for the species.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bopyridae
- Genus
- Anathelges
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Isopoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- foliosus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Boyko, C. B. & Williams, J. D. (2003) A revision of Anathelges and Stegophryxus (Isopoda: Bopyridae: Athelginae) with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 23 (4), 795 - 813. https: // doi. org / 10.1651 / C- 2398
- Markham, J. C. (1974 b) Parasitic bopyrid isopods of the amphi-American genus Stegophryxus Thompson with the description of a new species from California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 73 (1), 33 - 41.
- Markham, J. C. (2003) A worldwide list of hermit crabs and their relatives (Anomura: Paguroidea) reported as hosts of Isopoda Bopyridae. In: Lemaitre, R. & Tudge, C. C. (Eds.), Biology of the Anomura. Proceedings of a Symposium at the Fifth International Crustacean Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 9 - 13 July 2001. Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 60 (1), pp. 71 - 77. https: // doi. org / 10.24199 / j. mmv. 2003.60.10
- Diaz, M. V. & Roccatagliata, D. (2006) Remarks on the genus Anathelges (Isopoda: Bopyridae), with a new record from the Beagle Channel, Argentina. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 26 (3), 331 - 340. https: // doi. org / 10.1651 / C- 2593.1
- Pardo, L. M., Boyko, C. B. & Mantelatto, F. (2009) Description of a new species of Asymmetrione (Isopoda: Bopyridae: Pseudioninae) infesting the hermit crab Paguristes tomentosus (Anomura: Diogenidae) from Peru, with a key to species and a review of southeastern Pacific bopyrids. Journal of Natural History, 43 (33 - 34), 2041 - 2055. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930903094639
- McDermott, J. J., Williams, J. D. & Boyko, C. B. (2010) The unwanted guests of hermits: a worldwide review of the diversity and natural history of hermit crab parasites. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology, 394 (1 - 2), 2 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jembe. 2010.06.022