Bathygyge Hansen, 1897

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 : 29

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/amnb-921-00-01.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630504

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scientific name

Bathygyge Hansen, 1897
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DIAGNOSIS (after Markham, 1985a): Female: Body subcircular. Coxal plates large; oostegites about half covering marsupium. Small pleon sharply rotated, of six distinct separated pleomeres, lacking lateral plates, pleopods and uropods biramous.

Male: All pereomeres distinct. Propodus of each pereopod produced into ventrodistal projection receiving tip of dactylus. Pleon fused, ovate, bulbous, about 1/4 total body length, lacking appendages and most traces of segmentation.

TYPE SPECIES: Bathygyge grandis Hansen, 1897 , by monotypy.

OTHER SPECIES: None.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Bopyridae

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