original description
Codreanu, R., M. Codreanu & R. B. Pike. (1960). Sur un nouveau type d'Entoniscien, Diogenion vermifactus n.g. n. sp., parasite du Pagure Diogenes senex Heller de loa mer rouge. <em>Comptes rendus des seances de l'Academie des Sciences.</em> 251: 439-441. [details] Available for editors [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]
From editor or global species database
ecology Host is Diogenes senex [details]