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Eophrixus nigrocinctus (Chopra, 1923) 
AphiaID: 255226

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 nigrocinctus Chopra, 1923 (basionym)
Sources  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]

from synonym: Chopra, B. (1923) Bopyrid isopods parasitic on Indian Macrura. Records of the Indian Museum 25 (5): 411-550. [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Nicobar Islands [details]
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Notes  ecology: Hosts : Periclimenes elegans; Nicobar Is., on Periclimenes amymone and Leander tenuicornis (Chopra, 1930); [details]

type locality: Andaman Is. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255226
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
  
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  Citation: Schotte, M. (2013). Eophrixus nigrocinctus (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=255226 on 2013-05-23
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