original description
(of Bopyrus alphei Richardson, 1900) Richardson, H. (1900). Results of the Branner-Agassiz Expedition to Brazil 2. The isopod Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 2: 157-159. [details] 
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]
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]
source of synonymy
Richardson, H. (1905). A monograph on the isopods of North America. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 54: i-liii + 1-727. [details] 
new combination reference
Markham, J. C. (1985) A review of the bopyrid isopods infesting caridean shrimps in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, with special reference to those collected during the Hourglass cruises in the Gulf of Mexico. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises 7 (3): 1-156. [details] Available for editors 
From editor or global species database
type locality Brazil [details]