| Previously, scattered accounts recorded 13 species of bopyrid isopods infesting decapod crustaceans in Thailand. Recent collections, mainly at Phuket, on the west coast, have turned up 18 more species in Thai waters. Asymmetrione asymmetrica (Shiino) infests Clibanarius spec. Bopyrissa liberorum spec. nov. infests C. merguiensis de Man. Parapagurion calcinicola Shiino infests Paguristes spec. Aporobopyrina lamellata Shiino infests Petrolisthes lamarckii (Leach). Metabopyrus irregularis spec. nov., infests Upogebia spec. Probopyrus buitendijki (Horst) infests Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man). P. annandalei Chopra, recorded for the second time from Thailand, infests Macrobrachium spec. Bopyrella tanytelson spec. nov., infests Alpheus spec. Parabopyrella... |
