Published March 29, 2023 | Version v1
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Eremitione lata Boyko & Williams 2023, n. comb.

  • 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

Eremitione lata (Shiino, 1958) n. comb.

= Parapseudione lata Shiino, 1958

Distribution: Japanese and Russian sides of the Sea of Japan (Shiino 1958; Kornienko et al. 2018).

Hosts: Pagurus brachiomastus (Thallwitz, 1891), P. middendorfii Brandt, 1851, P. minutus Hess, 1865, P. ochotensis Brandt, 1851 (Shiino 1958; Kornienko et al. 2018)

Remarks: Parapseudione lata cannot remain in Parapseudione as that genus is synonymized with Pleurocrypta in the present work (see below). Aside from the female having four pairs of biramous pleopods and one pair of uniramous pleopods, all the characters of the females and males indicate that this species belongs to Eremitione, and we transfer it to that genus herein. Markham (1986) and Boyko & Williams (2004) suggested that P. lata might be a synonym of Pseudione hyndmanni (Spence Bate & Westwood, 1867). However, given the geographic distance between Japan and Europe, as well as several morphological differences (e.g., smooth oostegite 1 internal ridge in E. lata vs. digitate in P. hyndmanni; male without pleopods in E. lata vs. with pleopods in P. hydmanni; see Bourdon 1968), we retain E. lata as a distinct species.

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 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7780211

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Boyko & Williams
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Isopoda
Family
Bopyridae
Genus
Eremitione
Species
lata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Eremitione lata (Shiino, 1958) sec. Boyko & Williams, 2023

References

  • Shiino, S. M. (1958) Note on the bopyrid fauna of Japan. Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie, 3 (1), 27 - 74, pl. 3.
  • Kornienko, E. S., Korn, O. M. & Selin, N. I. (2018) The parasitic fauna of common Species of hermit crabs of Vostok Bay (Sea of Japan). Biologiya Morya, 44 (2), 80 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 1063074018020062
  • Markham, J. C. (1986) Evolution and zoogeography of the Isopoda Bopyridae, parasites of Crustacea Decapoda. In: Gore, R. H. & Heck, K. L. (Eds.), Crustacean Issues 4. Crustacean Biogeography. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 143 - 164. https: // doi. org / 10.1201 / 9781315140674 - 7
  • Boyko, C. B. & Williams, J. D. (2004) New records of marine isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Bahamas, with descriptions of two new species of epicarideans. Bulletin of Marine Science, 74 (2), 353 - 383.
  • Bourdon, R. (1968) Les Bopyridae des Mers Europeennes. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Serie A, Zoologie, 50 (2), 77 - 424.