Cancricepon elegans

Cancricepon elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Bopyridae
Genus: Cancricepon
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Cancricepon elegans
Giard & Bonnier, 1887
Synonyms

Cepon elegans Giard & Bonnier, 1886 (nomen nudum)

Cancricepon elegans is an species of isopod that parasitises the crab Pilumnus hirtellus. It was originally described from French waters and has since been found off the coast of Great Britain.[1][2]

References

External identifiers for Cancricepon_elegans
Encyclopedia of Life 330606
WoRMS 118206
Also found in: Wikispecies
  1. Jianmei An, Haiyan Yu & Jason D. Williams (2012). "A new species of Cancricepon Giard & Bonnier, 1887 (Isopoda: Bopyridae) from China". Systematic Parasitology 83 (3): 243–248. doi:10.1007/s11230-012-9381-8. PMID 23065306.
  2. R. Hamond (1974). "The marine and brackish-water non-amphipodan peracaridan Crustacea of Norfolk". Cahiers de Biologie Marine 19 (2): 197–213.

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