WoRMS taxon details
Hemiphryxus malindiae (Bruce, 1974)
AphiaID: 260606
AphiaID: 260606
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Bopyridae (Family) > Hemiarthrinae (Subfamily) > Hemiphryxus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Hemiphryxus Bruce, 1978 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Allophryxus malindiae Bruce, 1974 (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: Bruce, A.J. (1978) A new name, Hemiphryxus, proposed for the preoccupied name Allophryxus Bruce, 1974 (Isopoda, Bopyridae). Crustaceana 35(1): 106. [details] from synonym: Bruce, A.J. (1974) Allophryxus malindiae gen. nov., sp. nov., a hemiarthrinid bopyrid parasitic upon the pontoniid shrimp Coralliocaris superba (Dana). Parasitology 68(2): 127-134. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Coralliocaris superba (Dana, 1852) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
ecology: Host is Corallicaris superba [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:260606 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Hemiphryxus malindiae (Bruce, 1974). 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=260606 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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