Orbimorphus constrictus Richardson, 1910

Pardo, Luis Miguel, Boyko, Christopher B. & Mantelatto, Fernando L., 2009, Description of a new species of Asymmetrione (Isopoda: Bopyridae: Pseudioninae) infesting the hermit crab Paguristes tomentosus (Anomura: Diogenidae) from Peru, with a key to species and a review of southeastern Pacific bopyrids, Journal of Natural History 43 (33 - 34), pp. 2041-2055 : 2050

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903094639
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scientific name	Orbimorphus constrictus Richardson, 1910
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This species has only been reported once as a parasite of Petrolisthes armatus (Gibbes, 1850) from Matapalo (near Capon), Peru. It is the only bopyrid known from porcellanid crabs in the region.

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Isopoda
Family	Bopyridae
Genus	Orbimorphus

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