Rhopalione pelseneeri Pérez, 1920

Boyko, Christopher B. & Williams, Jason D., 2024, New records of bopyrid parasites (Crustacea, Isopoda, Epicaridea) of pea crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pinnotheridae) with descriptions of two new species of Rhopalione Pérez, 1921 and a review of the genus, Zoosystema 46 (7), pp. 149-175 : 163

Rhopalione pelseneeri Pérez, 1920 nomen nudum

Rhopalione pelsenseeri Pérez, 1920a: 1617 [ex unidentified pinnotherid crab, Lombok, Indonesia]. — de Man 1921: 260 [mention]. — Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis 1923: 68 [list]. — Perkins 1925: 182 [mention]; 1931: 176 [mention]. — Danforth, 1963: 11. — Page 1985: 199, 200 [mention]. — McDermott 2009: 790, 792, table 2 [mention, list]. — An et al. 2014: 2, table 1 [list]. — Ahyong & Boyko 2019: 286 [discussion of identity].

“ Rhopalione infesting a pinnotherid in Lombok” – Markham 1990: 562.

REMARKS

This name has been cited numerous times in the literature, but Pérez (1920a) is the only report on this species and he neglected to provide any description or illustration that might have served to make the name available. This name likely cannot be placed into synonymy with R. uromyzon or R. incerta , given that Pérez saw material of all three “taxa.” Ahyong & Boyko (2019) noted that Pérez (1920a) did not identify the pinnotherid host for this species, but Pérez (1921) thanked J. G. de Man for identifying the host as Pinnotheres arcophilus , a junior subjective synonym of Arcotheres palaensis (Bürger, 1895) . There are no other records of specimens of Rhopalione from this host and the species may be distinct, albeit undescribed.