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Eophrixus brevicauda (Chopra, 1923) 
AphiaID: 255224

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Bopyridae (Family) > Hemiarthrinae (Subfamily) > Eophrixus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Eophrixus Caroli, 1930
Synonymised
taxa		  Hemiarthrus brevicauda Chopra, 1923 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Chopra, B. (1923) Bopyrid isopods parasitic on Indian Macrura. Records of the Indian Museum 25 (5): 411-550. [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]

new combination reference: Markham, J. C. (1985) A review of the bopyrid isopods infesting caridean shrimps in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, with special reference to those collected during the Hourglass cruises in the Gulf of Mexico. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises 7 (3): 1-156. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  ecology: Host is Synalpheus sp. [details]

type locality: Andaman Is. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255224
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2010-11-05 14:48:40Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Eophrixus brevicauda (Chopra, 1923). 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=255224 on 2013-05-21
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