New occurrences and host records for two species of parasitic isopods (Isopoda, Cymothoida, Bopyridae) associated with caridean shrimps (Decapoda, Caridea) from Brazil

ABSTRACT

Two species of bopyrid isopods of the Bopyrinae subfamily are recorded from new localities and hosts in northeastern Brazil. Parabopyrella lata (Nierstrasz and Brender à Brandis, 1929) was recorded from the state of Ceará, found for the first time parasitising the caridean shrimp Alpheus packardii Kingsley, 1880. In addition, Probopyrus cf. pandalicola (Packard, 1879) is recorded from the state of Bahia, parasitising the palaemonid shrimp Palaemon northropi (Rankin, 1898). Taxonomic comments are provided for each species.

KEYWORDS:

• Parabopyrella
• Probopyrus
• Bopyrinae
• taxonomy
• new records

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Paulo Pachelle for the donation of the Parabopyrella material to the UFRGS collection and the shrimp identification, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for the scholarship provided to APH and the fellowship provided to FBR, (PDJ 154614/2018-1) and the anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions. The material analyzed was registered in the SISGEN Platform according to the Brazilian laws.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico [PDJ 154614/2018-1]; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico [Master’s scholarship]; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior [Post doctoral fellowship (CAPES-PNPD)].