Bopyridae

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Bopyridae
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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
Shrimp displaying bulge indicating bopyrid parasitism Lebbeus grandimanus from North East Pacific, with unidentified bopyrid - journal.pone.0035350.g001-C.png
Shrimp displaying bulge indicating bopyrid parasitism

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

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References

  1. Chris Boyko & Marilyn Schotte (2011). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti & G. D. F. Wilson (eds.). "Bopyridae". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved June 12, 2011.
  2. "WoRMS taxon details, Bopyridae Rafinesque, 1815". World Register of Marine Species. 2019-06-24.
  3. Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  4. 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.
  5. 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.