Cancricepon elegans

Cancricepon elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Bopyridae
Genus: Cancricepon
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Cancricepon elegans
Synonyms

Cepon elegans Giard & Bonnier, 1886 (nomen nudum)

Cancricepon elegans is a species of isopod that parasitises the crab Pilumnus hirtellus. It was originally described from French waters and has since been found off the coast of Great Britain.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ A. Giard & J. Bonnier (1887). "Contributions à l'étude des bopyriens" [Contributions to the study of the Bopyridae]. Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux (in French). 5: 1–272.
  2. ^ Jianmei An, Haiyan Yu & Jason D. Williams (2012). "A new species of Cancricepon Giard & Bonnier, 1887 (Isopoda: Bopyridae) from China". Systematic Parasitology. 83 (3): 243–248. doi:10.1007/s11230-012-9381-8. PMID 23065306.
  3. ^ R. Hamond (1974). "The marine and brackish-water non-amphipodan peracaridan Crustacea of Norfolk". Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 19 (2): 197–213.


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