Isopoda

WoRMS taxon details

Gyge wimi Boyko & Williams, 2025

1808637  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1808637)

  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. Gyge (Genus)
  15. Gyge wimi (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Boyko, C. B.; Williams, J. D. (2025). New records of crustacean (Isopoda: Bopyridae and Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) and molluscan (Bivalvia: Galeommatoidea) symbionts from gebiid mud shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gebiidea) with description of a new species of <i>Gyge</i> Cornalia & Panceli, 1861 from Iran. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5621(5): 571-586., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.5.5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  SMF 62932  
Holotype SMF 62932 [details]
, Type locality contained in Persian Gulf  
type locality contained in Persian Gulf [details]
Etymology We are pleased to name this species in honor of Wim Decock, Science Officer in the Data Centre of Flanders Marine...  
Etymology We are pleased to name this species in honor of Wim Decock, Science Officer in the Data Centre of Flanders Marine Institute/Vlaams Instituut Voor De Zee (VLIZ) on the occasion of his retirement. Wim has been an amazing resource and of great help with making sure that the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) runs smoothly and is kept up to date and fully functional. [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Gyge wimi Boyko & Williams, 2025. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1808637 on 2025-05-07
Date
action
by
2025-04-23 07:09:01Z
created
Boyko, Christopher B.
2025-04-23 09:18:20Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Boyko, C. B.; Williams, J. D. (2025). New records of crustacean (Isopoda: Bopyridae and Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) and molluscan (Bivalvia: Galeommatoidea) symbionts from gebiid mud shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gebiidea) with description of a new species of <i>Gyge</i> Cornalia & Panceli, 1861 from Iran. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5621(5): 571-586., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.5.5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype SMF 62932 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology We are pleased to name this species in honor of Wim Decock, Science Officer in the Data Centre of Flanders Marine Institute/Vlaams Instituut Voor De Zee (VLIZ) on the occasion of his retirement. Wim has been an amazing resource and of great help with making sure that the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) runs smoothly and is kept up to date and fully functional. [details]

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