A Review Of Bopyrids (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) Parasitic On Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) From China
Author
An, Jianmei
Author
Boyko, Christopher B.
Author
Li, Xinzheng
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2015
2015-12-18
2015
399
1
85
http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1206/amnb-921-00-01.1
journal article
7638
10.1206/amnb-921-00-01.1
7a5bdc12-35b6-4e41-8681-9cff9df2e91c
0003-0090
4612506
Apophrixus
Nierstrasz and Brender
à Brandis, 1931
DIAGNOSIS: (modified from Nierstrasz and Brender à Brandis, 1931,
Markham, 1982
): Female: Body weakly asymmetrical, one side more swollen and longer than other. Head large. Dorsal side with four distinct pereomeres; pleomeres fused. Seven pereopods on short side of body, 6 or 7 on long side; pereopods 4–6 smaller than others. Pleon with four pairs of well-developed lateral plates and four pairs of uniramous pleopods; uropods uniramous.
Males: Pleomeres fused into single large segment, no pleopods or uropods.
TYPE
SPECIES:
Apophrixus philippinensis
Nierstrasz and Brender
à Brandis, 1931, by monotypy.
OTHER SPECIES:
Apophrixus constrictus
Markham, 1982
.