Species Ourozeuktes bopyroides (Lesueur, 1814)

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• Cymothoa bopyroides Lesueur, C.A. 1814. Sur une nouvelle espèce d'insecte du genre Cymothoa de Fabricius. Bulletin des Sciences pars la Société Philomathique de Paris. [46].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).

  Secondary source:

   Hale, H.M. 1940. Report on the cymothoid Isopoda obtained by F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 64: 288-304.
• Ourozeuktes owenii Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 3 220 acompagnée de planches. [276].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, unknown (as 'Patrie inconnue').
• Ourozeuktes pyriformis Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls. [284].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3331, G5383, none published, probably Australia (possible syntypes taken from Port Jackson, NSW).
• Urozeuktes monacanthi Schioedte, J.C. & Meinert, F. 1884. Symbolae ad monographium Cymothoarum Crustaeorum Isopodum familiae IV. Cymothoidae Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 14: 221-454, pls 6-18 [407] [lapsus for Ourozeuktes, incorrect subsequent spelling].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMW ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Urozeuktes caudatus Schioedte, J.C. & Meinert, F. 1884. Symbolae ad monographium Cymothoarum Crustaeorum Isopodum familiae IV. Cymothoidae Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 14: 221-454, pls 6-18 [411] [lapsus for Ourozeuktes, incorrect subsequent spelling].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀, Adelaide, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hale, H.M. 1940. Report on the cymothoid Isopoda obtained by F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 64: 288-304 [304]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kerguelen Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Parasitic on Monacanthidae.

 

General References

Hale, H.M. 1926. Review of Australian isopods of the cymothoid group. Pt II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 50: 201-234, pls 26 & 27 (redescription, distribution, hosts, as Ourozeuktes owenii Milne Edwards, 1840)

Hale, H.M. 1929. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 2 201-380 pp. [264] (redescription, biology (as Ourozeuktes owenii Milne Edwards, 1840))

 

History of changes

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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