Metaphrixus, Nierstrasz & Brender

Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra, Horch, Amanda Porciuncula, Terossi, Mariana & Mantelatto, Fernando Luis, 2024, A new species of Metaphrixus Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 (Isopoda: Bopyridae: Hemiarthrinae) associated with an Hippolytidae shrimp from Costa Rica, Zootaxa 5501 (3), pp. 458-466 : 463

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5501.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:94B987FA-60DB-46A4-A9FB-CFD74CD06334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13689782

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B33FA230-FFFD-726B-23A3-886AA6A3FA7F

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Metaphrixus
status

 

Key to species of Metaphrixus View in CoL parasitizing caridean shrimps in the world based on adult females

1a. First two pereopods on convex side....................................................................... 2

1b. First two pereopods fully developed plus a third pereopod reduced on convex side.................................. 4

2a. Antennules and antennae as unsegmented flaps........................ M. carolii Nierstrasz & Brender View in CoL à Brandis, 1931

2b. Antennule and antennae segmented....................................................................... 3

3a. Antennae of five articles, head indistinctly separated from pereon, attached ventrally on host............................................................................... M. setouchiensis Shimomura, Ohtsuka & Sakakihara, 2006 View in CoL

3b. Antennae of three articles, head distinctly separated from pereon, attached dorsolaterally on host...... M. intutus Bruce, 1966 View in CoL

4a. Antennule of three articles, head quadrangular and distinctly separated from pereon.......... M. rastriferis Markham, 1990 View in CoL

4b. Antennule of two articles, head subquadrangular and distinctly separated from pereon laterally but not medially............................................................................................. M. wehrtmanni sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Bopyridae

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