WoRMS taxon details
Orophryxus Bruce, 1972
AphiaID: 249070
AphiaID: 249070
| 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 | Orophryxus shiinoi Bruce, 1972 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Hemiarthrinae Markham, 1972 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Bruce, A. J. (1972) Orophryxus shiinoi gen. nov., sp. nov., an unusual phryxid (Crustacea, Isopoda, Bopyridae) parasitic upon a pontoniid shrimp from Zanzibar. Parasitology 64: 445-450. [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 Orophryxus shiinoi Bruce, 1972 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:249070 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Orophryxus Bruce, 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=249070 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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