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Dajus afromysidis Pillai, 1964 
AphiaID: 257508

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Dajidae (Family) > Dajus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Dajus Krøyer, 1846
Sources  original description: Pillai, N. K. (1963) Isopod parasites of Indian mysids. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 6: 739-743. [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]

Environment marine
Distribution type locality: Trivandrum [details]
Feedingtype  adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Afromysis macropsis W. Tattersall, 1922 [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  ecology: Host is Afromysis macropsis [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257508
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2009-12-23 11:19:49Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Dajus afromysidis Pillai, 1964. 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=257508 on 2013-06-18
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