Species Bopyroides hippolytes (Krøyer, 1838)

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Species Bopyroides hippolytes (Krøyer, 1838)

Bopyrus hippolytes Krøyer, H. 1838. Grönlands Amfipoda. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter Naturvidenskab. Math. Afd 7: 229-326, pls I-IV [306].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMUC, Greenland, on Lebbeus polaris (Hipplytidae).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumboreal.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: NW coast
- Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Parasitic on hippolytid and pandalid shrimps.

General References

Bruce, A.J. & Chace, F.A. 1986. Paralebbeus zotheculatus n.gen., n.sp., a new hippolytid shrimp from the Australian Northwest Shelf. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99: 237-247 (Australian record, as Bopyrus lamellatus, A.J. Bruce pers. comm.)

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 (synonymy, distribution, diagnosis)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
05-Aug-2022	05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	06-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
	29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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