Biology:Bopyridae
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Short description: Family of crustaceans
| Bopyridae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Cymothoida |
| Infraorder: | Epicaridea |
| Superfamily: | Bopyroidea |
| Family: | Bopyridae Rafinesque, 1815 |
The Bopyridae are a family of isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida. There are 1223 individual species contained in this family.[1][2] Members of the family are ectoparasites of crabs and shrimp. They live in the gill cavities or under the carapace where they cause a noticeable swelling. Fossil crustaceans have occasionally been observed to have a similar characteristic bulge.[3]
Genera
References
- ↑ M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce et al., eds (2011). "Bopyridae". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1195.
- ↑ "WoRMS taxon details, Bopyridae Rafinesque, 1815". 2019-06-24. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1195&allchildren=1.
- ↑ "Virginia Institute of Marine Science". http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php.
- ↑ An, J., Bokyo, C. & Li, X. (2013). A new genus and species of parasitic isopod (Isopoda: Bopyridae: Orbioninae) from Chinese waters, with a new locality and host record for Orbione halipori Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923. Systematic Parasitology, 84(2), 149–156.
- ↑ Boyko, C. B., Williams, J. D. & Shields, J. D. (2017). Parasites (Isopoda: Epicaridea and Nematoda) from Ghost and Mud Shrimp (Decapoda: Axiidea and Gebiidea) with Descriptions of a New Genus and a New Species of Bopyrid Isopod and Clarification of Pseudione Kossmann, 1881. Zootaxa, 4365, 251–301.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2910574 entry
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