Bodotria scorpioides

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Bodotria scorpioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Malacostraca Superorder: Peracarida Order: Cumacea Family: Bodotriidae Subfamily: Bodotriinae Genus: Bodotria Species: B. scorpioides
Binomial name
Bodotria scorpioides (Montagu, 1804)

Bodotria scorpioides is a species of crustacean belonging to the order cumacea and the genus bodotria. They are found in the East Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

[edit] Anatomy

B. scorpioides does not possess a free telson. The first thoracic somite is too short to be seen from above, the second is longer. Both males and females have exopods (outer branches) on the first pereopods only.

[edit] External links

• Bodotria scorpioides on the World Cumacea Database.
• Bodotria scorpioides on the World Biodiversity Database.