Isopoda

WoRMS taxon details

Aporobopyrus megacephalon (Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1929)

258999  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:258999)

  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. Aporobopyrus (Genus)
  15. Aporobopyrus megacephalon (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pleurocryptosa megacephalon Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1929) Nierstrasz, H. F.; Brender à Brandis, G. A. (1929). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. 48. Epicaridea 1. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn.</em> 87: 1-44. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note Gulf of Thailand  
type locality Gulf of Thailand [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Aporobopyrus megacephalon (Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1929). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=258999 on 2025-05-12
Date
action
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-05 18:50:04Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pleurocryptosa megacephalon Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1929) Nierstrasz, H. F.; Brender à Brandis, G. A. (1929). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. 48. Epicaridea 1. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn.</em> 87: 1-44. [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] 

new combination reference Adkison, D. L. (1988) Pseudione parviramus and Aporobopyrus collardi, two new species of Bopyridae (Isopoda: Epicaridea) from the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 576-584. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (HKRMS) Li L. (2002). The taxonomy, biology abd behaviour of Dynoides daguilarensis (Malacostraca: Isopoda) in the Cape d' Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong. PhD thesis. The University of Hong Kong. [details] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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

From editor or global species database
type locality Gulf of Thailand [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pleurocryptosa megacephalon Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1929)
To ITIS

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