WoRMS taxon details
Megacepon George, 1947
AphiaID: 248942
AphiaID: 248942
| 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 | Megacepon choprai George, 1947 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ioninae H. Milne Edwards, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: George, P. C. (1947) Megacepon choprai gen. et sp. nov., a bopyrid isopod from the gill chamber of Sesarma tetragonum (Fabr.). Records of the Indian Museum 44 (4): 385-390. [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 Megacepon choprai George, 1947 Species Megacepon disparatum An, Boyko & Li, 2012 Species Megacepon goetici (Shiino, 1934) Species Megacepon pleopodatopus Bourdon, 1981 Species Megacepon sesarmae (Pearse, 1930) Species Megacepon sheni An, Boyko & Li, 2012 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248942 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Megacepon George, 1947. 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=248942 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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