Probopyriscus Markham, 1982

An, Jianmei, Boyko, Christopher B. & Li, Xinzheng, 2015, A Review Of Bopyrids (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) Parasitic On Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) From China, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (399), pp. 1-85 : 61-62

Probopyriscus Markham, 1982

DIAGNOSIS (modified from Markham, 1982):

Female: Body approximately half as long as

wide, slightly distorted; head distinct and extended anteriorly, with long frontal lamina; maxilliped palp extended and articulated with large spur; barbula with single blunt projection on each side with trace of second projection mesially; all pereomeres distinct with coxal plates covering margins; oostegites reduced and exposing brood pouch, oostegite 1 slightly pointed and internally unadorned; pleon of six distinct pleomeres well separated laterally; five pairs of flaplike biramous pleopods; no uropods.

Male: Head distinctly separated laterally from first pleomere ; all pereomeres distinct and separated by lateral notches; pereopods small, all equally developed, with meri and carpi fused; pleon of six pleomeres indistinctly separated dorsally but deeply separated laterally; five pairs of buttonlike pleopods; no uropods.

TYPE SPECIES: Probopyriscus novempalensis Markham, 1982 , by original designation.

OTHER SPECIES: None.

REMARKS: Markham (1982) compared the characters of the type and sole species of Probopyriscus with those of several other bopyrines, including the western Atlantic Parabopyriscus stellatus and he indicated that the diagnosis of the latter genus and species was in press; that paper was eventually published as Markham (1985a). By introducing Parabopyriscus stellatus as a genus and species combination with detailed morphological characters that clearly differentiated these taxa from all others, Markham (1982, not 1985a) made these names available (ICZN, 1999: Article 13) and, as there was only a single species stated to be in Parabopyriscus , P. stellatus is the type species by monotypy.