WoRMS name details
Probopyria alphei (Richardson, 1900)
262583 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:262583)
unaccepted
Species
Probopyria Markham, 1985 accepted as Capitetragonia Pearse, 1953
Bopyrella alphei Bonnier, 1900 · unaccepted (nomen nudum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(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] 
Note Brazil
type locality Brazil [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. Probopyria alphei (Richardson, 1900). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=262583 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclature
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]
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
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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 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

Taxonomy
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] 
Other
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]





From editor or global species database
type locality Brazil [details]