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Dicropleon Markham, 1972 
AphiaID: 248690

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Bopyridae (Family) > Hemiarthrinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Dicropleon periclimenis Markham, 1972 (type by original designation)
Parent Hemiarthrinae Markham, 1972
Sources  original description: Markham, J. C. (1972) Two new genera of western Atlantic abdominally parasitizing Bopyridae (Isopoda, Epicaridea), with a proposed new name for their subfamily. Crustaceana Supplement 3: 39-56. [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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Dicropleon bifidus (Bourdon, 1967)
Species Dicropleon morator Markham, 1982
Species Dicropleon periclimenis Markham, 1972
Species Dicropleon processae Markham, 1980
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248690
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-20 16:54:03Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2011-11-30 16:38:56Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Dicropleon Markham, 1972. 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=248690 on 2013-06-19
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