WoRMS taxon details

Balanopleon tortuganus Markham, 1974

259211  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:259211)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Epicaridea (Suborder)
  11. Bopyroidea (Superfamily)
  12. Bopyridae (Family)
  13. Pseudioninae (Subfamily)
  14. Balanopleon (Genus)
  15. Balanopleon tortuganus (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Markham, J. C. (1974) Six new species of bopyrid isopods parasitic on galatheid crabs of the genus Munida in the western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 23: 613-648. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Type locality contained in Venezuelan part of the Caribbean Sea  
type locality contained in Venezuelan part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
, Note Tortuga Is., Venezuela  
type locality Tortuga Is., Venezuela [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. (Eds) (2024). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Balanopleon tortuganus Markham, 1974. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=259211 on 2024-04-19
Date
action
by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-08 14:48:11Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Markham, J. C. (1974) Six new species of bopyrid isopods parasitic on galatheid crabs of the genus Munida in the western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 23: 613-648. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
type locality Tortuga Is., Venezuela [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 141599) 
To ITIS

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