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Ergyne Risso, 1816 
AphiaID: 118174

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Bopyridae (Family) > Ioninae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Ergyne cervicornis Risso, 1816 (type by monotypy)
Parent Ioninae H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Synonymised
taxa		  Portunicepon Giard & Bonnier, 1887 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Risso, A., 1816. Histoire naturelle des crustacés des environs de Nice: 1-175, Plates 1-3. Librairie Grecque­Latine-Allemande, Paris. [details]

basis of record: Markham, J.C. (2001). Isopoda, Epicaridea, Bopyridae, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 322 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

source of synonymy: Bourdon, R. (1968) Les Bopyridae des mers Europeenne. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Nouvel Serie (A) 50 (2): 77-424. [details]

from synonym: Giard, A., and Bonnier, J. (1887) Contributions a l'etude des bopyriens. Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux 5: 1-272. [details] [view taxon]

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[show all]		 Species Ergyne cervicornis Risso, 1816

Species Ergyne rissoi Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1925 accepted as Cancricepon choprae (Nierstrasz & Brender a Brandis, 1925)
Species Ergyne savignyi Stebbing, 1910 accepted as Portunicepon savignyi (Stebbing, 1910)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118174
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Markham, John
2006-09-11 06:44:08Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-21 14:58:47Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2010-10-26 14:46:18Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2011-11-30 16:38:56Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M.; Markham, J. (2013). Ergyne Risso, 1816. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118174 on 2013-05-21
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