Isopoda taxon details
original description
Roman-Contreras, R. and Soto, L. (2002) A new deep-water genus and species of a branchial bopyrid infesting the galatheid crab Munidopsis erinaceus from the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Crustacean Biology 22(2): 279-286. [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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]
additional source
Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 502 [details]
distribution from southwestern Gulf of Mexico, from the outer continental slope off Coatzacoalcos River [details]
ecology Host is Munidopsis erinaceus (galatheid crab) [details]
type locality Mexico (Gulf of Mexico) [details]
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