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Onychocepon Pérez, 1921 
AphiaID: 249061

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 Onychocepon harpax Pérez, 1921 (type by monotypy)
Parent Ioninae H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Sources  original description: Pérez, C. (1921) Sur un céponien nouveau, Onychocepon harpax (n. g., n. sp.), parasite branchial d'un Pinnothère. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris 176(2): 59-61. [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 Onychocepon giardi Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923
Species Onychocepon harpax Pérez, 1921
Species Onychocepon resupinum Shiino, 1936

Species Onychocepon seychellensis Danforth, 1972 accepted as Dactylokepon seychellensis (Danforth, 1972)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:249061
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-29 14:35:13Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2011-11-30 16:38:56Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Onychocepon Pérez, 1921. 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=249061 on 2013-05-19
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