WoRMS taxon details

Paragigantione americana (Markham, 1974)

255253  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255253)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Epicaridea (Suborder)
  11. Bopyroidea (Superfamily)
  12. Bopyridae (Family)
  13. Pleurocryptellinae (Subfamily)
  14. Paragigantione (Genus)
  15. Paragigantione americana (Species)
accepted
Species
Bonnieria americana Markham, 1974 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Bonnieria americana Markham, 1974) Markham, J. C. (1974) Six new species of bopyrid isopods parasitic on galatheid crabs of the genus Munida in the western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 23: 613-648. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Type locality contained in Guyanese part of the North Atlantic Ocean  
type locality contained in Guyanese part of the North Atlantic Ocean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
, Note Guyana  
type locality Guyana [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Paragigantione americana (Markham, 1974). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255253 on 2025-04-15
Date
action
by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-08 14:48:11Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Bonnieria americana Markham, 1974) Markham, J. C. (1974) Six new species of bopyrid isopods parasitic on galatheid crabs of the genus Munida in the western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 23: 613-648. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Bourdon, R. (1981). Bopyriens nouveaux pour la faune européenne de l'Atlantique (Isopoda Epicaridea). <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 4e sér.</em> 3 (A):615-634. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
type locality Guyana [details]
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To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Bonnieria americana Markham, 1974)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 141592) (from synonym Bonnieria americana Markham, 1974)
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