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Holophryxus Richardson, 1905 
AphiaID: 146980

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Dajidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Dajidae Giard & Bonnier, 1887
Synonymised
taxa
  Hypodajus Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 (Junior synonym of Holophryxus Richardson, 1905)
Isophryxus Schultz, 1977 (Junior synonym of Holophryxus Richardson, 1905)
Sources  original description: Richardson, H. (1905) Isopods from the Alaska Salmon Investigation. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries P. 211-221. [details]

basis of record: 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]

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

source of synonymy (from synonym): Wasmer, R.A. (1988) The parasitic isopod Holophryxus acanthephyrae Stephensen (Epicaridea: Dajidae) from the subantarctic south Pacific, with notes on its synonymy and host. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(1): 20-30. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Nierstrasz, H.F. and G.A. Brender à Brandis (1931) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. LVII. Epicaridea II. Videnskabelige Meddedelser fra den Dansk Naturhistoriske Forening i København 91: 147-226, 1 pl. [details] [view taxon]

source of synonymy (from synonym): Butler, T.H. (1964) Redescription of the parasitic isopod Holophryxus alaskensis Richardson, and a note on its synonym. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 21(5): 971-976. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Holophryxus acanthephyrae Stephensen, 1913
Species Holophryxus alaskensis Richardson, 1905
Species Holophryxus fusiformis Shiino, 1937
Species Holophryxus giardi Richardson, 1908
Species Holophryxus polyandrus (Schultz, 1978)
Species Holophryxus quadratahumerale (Schultz, 1978)
Species Holophryxus richardi Koehler, 1911
Species Holophryxus septapodus (Schultz, 1978)

Species Holophryxus alascensis Richardson, 1905 accepted as Holophryxus alaskensis Richardson, 1905
Species Holophryxus californiensis Richardson, 1908 accepted as Holophryxus alaskensis Richardson, 1905
Environment marine
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146980
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-02-28 08:40:49Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2006-09-13 06:47:38Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
  
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  Citation: Schotte, M. (2013). Holophryxus Richardson, 1905. 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=146980 on 2013-06-19
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