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Oculophryxus bicaulis Shields & Gómez-Gutiérrez, 1996 
AphiaID: 261589

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Dajidae (Family) > Oculophryxus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Oculophryxus Shields & Gómez-Gutiérrez, 1996
Sources  original description: Shield, J. and Gomez-Gutierrez, J. (1996) Oculophryxus bicaulis, a new genus and species of dajid isopod parasitic on the euphausiid Stylocheiron affine Hansen. International Journal of Parasitology 26(3): 261-268. [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]

additional source: Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Environment marine
Distribution type locality: Baja California [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
South China Sea [details]
Feedingtype  adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Stylocheiron affine Hansen, 1910 [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:261589
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). Oculophryxus bicaulis Shields & Gómez-Gutiérrez, 1996. 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=261589 on 2013-06-19
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