WoRMS taxon details
Bopyroides hippolytes (Kröyer, 1838)
118204 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118204)
accepted
Species
Bopyroides acutimarginatus Stimpson, 1864 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bopyroides sarsi Bonnier, 1900 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bopyrus hippolytes Kröyer, 1838 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Bopyrus hippolytes Kröyer, 1838) Kröyer, H. (1838). Grönlands Amfipoder. [Amphipods of Greenland]. <em>Det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, series 4.</em> 7: 229-326, pls. 1-4. [details] 
Note Greenland
type locality Greenland [details]
Distribution Saguenay Fjord; southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern...
Distribution Saguenay Fjord; southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley); Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Bopyroides hippolytes (Kröyer, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118204 on 2025-07-15
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Bopyrus hippolytes Kröyer, 1838) Kröyer, H. (1838). Grönlands Amfipoder. [Amphipods of Greenland]. <em>Det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, series 4.</em> 7: 229-326, pls. 1-4. [details]
original description (of Bopyroides acutimarginatus Stimpson, 1864) Stimpson, William. (1864). Descriptions of new species of marine Invertebrata from Puget Sound, collected by the naturalists of the North-West Boundary Commission, A.H. Campbell, Esq., Commissioner. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 16(3): 153-161., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1942749 [details]
original description (of Bopyroides sarsi Bonnier, 1900) Bonnier, J. (1900). Contribution a l'étude des épicarides. Les Bopyridae. <em>Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux.</em> 8: 1-475, pls. 1-41. [details]
basis of record Markham, J.C. (2001). Isopoda, Epicaridea, Bopyridae, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 322. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Bopyroides acutimarginatus Stimpson, 1864) Stimpson, William. (1864). Descriptions of new species of marine Invertebrata from Puget Sound, collected by the naturalists of the North-West Boundary Commission, A.H. Campbell, Esq., Commissioner. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 16(3): 153-161., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1942749 [details]
original description (of Bopyroides sarsi Bonnier, 1900) Bonnier, J. (1900). Contribution a l'étude des épicarides. Les Bopyridae. <em>Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux.</em> 8: 1-475, pls. 1-41. [details]
basis of record Markham, J.C. (2001). Isopoda, Epicaridea, Bopyridae, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 322. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Bourdon, R. (1968). Les Bopyridae des mers européennes. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Série A, Zoologie.</em> 50 (2): 77-424. [details] Available for editors 
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source of synonymy Markham, J. C. (1985) A review of the bopyrid isopods infesting caridean shrimps in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, with special reference to those collected during the Hourglass cruises in the Gulf of Mexico. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises 7 (3): 1-156. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]source of synonymy Markham, J. C. (1985) A review of the bopyrid isopods infesting caridean shrimps in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, with special reference to those collected during the Hourglass cruises in the Gulf of Mexico. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises 7 (3): 1-156. [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source 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]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source 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]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
type locality Greenland [details]Unreviewed
Distribution Saguenay Fjord; southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley); Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras [details]Habitat ectoparsite of invertebrates; circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Bopyroides sarsi Bonnier, 1900)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bopyroides hippolytes)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Bopyrus hippolytes Kröyer, 1838)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (58 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Bopyroides sarsi Bonnier, 1900)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bopyroides hippolytes)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Bopyrus hippolytes Kröyer, 1838)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (58 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
