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Aspidophryxus japonicus Shimomura & Ohtsuka, 2011 
AphiaID: 577532

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Dajidae (Family) > Aspidophryxus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Aspidophryxus G.O. Sars, 1883
Source  original description: Shimomura, M. & Ohtsuka, S. (2011) Two new species of ectoparasitic isopods (Isopoda, Dajidae) from mysids in Japan. In: A. Asakura (Ed), Crustacean Monographs, 15. New Frontiers in Crustacean Biology: Proceedings of the TCS Summer Meeting, Tokyo, 20-24 September 2009. Brill, Leiden, Boston, pp. 23-30. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Feedingtype  adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Holmsiella affinis Ii, 1937 accepted as Holmesiella affinis Ii, 1937 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:577532
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2011-07-25 20:30:31Z  created  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C. (2013). Aspidophryxus japonicus Shimomura & Ohtsuka, 2011. 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=577532 on 2013-05-22
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