New records and hosts for three species of pseudionine bopyrids (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) parasitizing munidid squat lobsters (Crustacea: Anomura: Munididae) in Philippine waters

Abstract

Three species of pseudionine bopyrid isopods infesting four species of munidid squat lobsters are reported from Philippine waters: Pleurocryptella laevis (Richardson, 1910) from Agononida analoga (Macpherson, 1993); Aporobopyrus retrorsa (Richardson, 1910) from Munida philippinensis Macpherson and Baba, 1993 and Munida kuboi Yanagita, 1943; and Munidion laterale Richardson, 1910 from Paramunida scabra (Henderson, 1885). All of these hosts, except for Paramunida scabra, are recorded for the first time bearing parasitic isopods.

Keywords:

• Bopyridae
• Pseudioninae
• Munididae
• the Philippines

Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 31101614), Shanxi Province Youth Science Foundation (No. 2012021026 ) and Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Normal University (No. ZR1014). The authors would like to thank Prof. J. Y. Liu (Ruiyu Liu, IOCAS) and Yongliang Wang (IOCAS) for their guidance in this study and collection, as well as Dr Jason Williams (Hofstra University) for comments and suggestions.