Bopyrione Bourdon and Markham, 1980

An, Jianmei, Boyko, Christopher B. & Li, Xinzheng, 2015, A Review Of Bopyrids (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) Parasitic On Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) From China, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (399), pp. 1-85 : 37-38

Bopyrione Bourdon and Markham, 1980

DIAGNOSIS: Female: Body outline ovate, slightly distorted. Head separated from first pereomere, but deeply embedded into pereon. Maxilliped without palp. Barbula with two pairs of falcate lateral projections on each side. Brood pouch medially open or closed, oostegite 1 with long posterolateral point and smooth internal ridge. Pleon of five or six obscure pleomeres, lateral margins almost entire. Four or five pairs of uniramous flaplike pleopods, lateral plates and uropods lacking.

Male: Body longer than wide, pereomeres distinct, pleomeres fused. Most or all pereomeres with midventral tubercles, pleopods and uropods lacking.

TYPE SPECIES: Bopyrione synalphei Bourdon and Markham, 1980 , by original designation.

OTHER SPECIES: Bopyrione longicapitata Markham, 1982 , B. multifeminae , n. sp., B. toloensis Markham, 1982 , B. woodmasoni ( Chopra, 1923) .

REMARKS: Bourdon and Markham (1980) erected Bopyrione for B. synalphei infesting Synalpheus goodei Coutière, 1909 , S. bousfieldi Chace, 1972 , and S. pectiniger Coutière, 1907 , plus three other unidentified Synalpheus sp. (sp. near S. goodei , sp. near S. longicarpus (Herrick, 1891) and Synalpheus sp.) from the western Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico off Florida, Haiti, and Curaçao). Bopyroides woodmasoni Chopra, 1923 , infesting Synalpheus sp. from India, was transferred to Bopyrione by Bourdon and Markham (1980). Markham (1982) later described two new species from Hong Kong: B. longicapitata , infesting an Alpheus sp. questionably identified as Alpheus lobidens De Haan, 1849 , and B. toloensis infesting an Alpheus sp. questionably identified as Alpheus microstylus ( Bate, 1888) . All hosts of the four previously known Bopy ‐ rione species are in Alpheidae .