Holophryxus Richardson 1905 ...

• Main Authors: Huys, Rony, Savchenko, Alexandra S., Kosobokova, Ksenia N.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Dajidae; Holophryxus; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8011020; https://zenodo.org/record/8011020

GENUS HOLOPHRYXUS RICHARDSON, 1905 A Synonyms Hypodajus Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 (type species: Hypodajus georgiensis Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931; by monotypy); Cryptonus Schultz, 1977 (type species: Cryptonus truncatus Schultz, 1977; by original designation); Isophryxus Schultz, 1977 (type species: Isophryxus concavus Schultz, 1977; by original designation). Taxonomic history Holophryxus Richardson, 1905a is one of 22 valid genera currently recognized in the family Dajidae and, together with Notophryxus , the genus with the greatest number of species (Boyko et al. , 2022). Richardson (1905a: 220) proposed the genus for its type and only species, Ho. alaskensis , and based her description on three adult females collected in south-eastern Alaska between 269 and 640 m depth. No males were collected and the host was unknown. Richardson (1905b: 576) reproduced her original description under the incorrect subsequent spelling Ho. alascensis and mentioned the discovery of another ... : Published as part of Huys, Rony, Savchenko, Alexandra S. & Kosobokova, Ksenia N., 2023, Discovery of a new species and host record of Holophryxus Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Dajidae) from the central Arctic: a model of enhanced descriptive standards for epicaridean isopods, pp. 592-649 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (2) on pages 601-606, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac105, http://zenodo.org/record/8011009 ...