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Mesophryxus ventralis gen.nov., sp.nov., a phryxid bopyrid parasitic upon the pontoniinid shrimp Harpiliopsis beaupresi (Audouin)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

A. J. Bruce
A. J. Bruce
Affiliation:
East African Marine Fisheries Research Organization, Zanzibar
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Mesophryxus, a new genus of phryxid isopod is described. The only species, M. ventralis, is a parasite of Harpiliopsis beaupresi (Audouin) to which it is attached on the ventral aspect of the sixth abdominal segment, behind the fifth pair of pleopods. Mesophryxus is most closely related to the genus Anomophryxus Shiino, from which it differs in the arrangement of appendages on the abdomen.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , June 1973 , pp. 515 - 523
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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