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Bopyroidea 
AphiaID: 155727

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Superfamily
Parent Cymothoida
Synonymised
taxa
  Epicaridea (Suborder replaced by superfamily of Cymothoida)
Sources  basis of record: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brandt, A. and Poore, G.C.B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 893-923. [details]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
 Family Bopyridae Rafinesque, 1815
Family Bopyroidea incertae sedis
Family Colypuridae Richardson, 1905
Family Dajidae Giard & Bonnier, 1887
Family Entoniscidae Kossmann, 1881
Family Rhabdochiridae Richardson, 1905

Family Microniscidae Giard & Bonnier, 1887 accepted as Bopyroidea incertae sedis
Environment marine
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155727
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-02 12:40:44Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-31 16:42:38Z  changed  Haskins, Tina
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Bopyroidea. 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=155727 on 2013-05-26
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