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

publication ID	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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Isopoda
Family	Bopyridae
SubFamily	Bopyrinae

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