ISOPOD NEWLETTER
Number 49
June 2008
Editor: Marilyn Schotte
Department of Invertebrate Zoology
MRC 163
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C. 20013-7012 U.S.A.
Email: schottem@si.edu
Upcoming meetings:
The Crustacean Society summer meeting: September 20-23, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. See
website at http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/csj4/TCSFirstPage1.html
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting on Parasitic Crustacea: January
3-9, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. See in http://www.vims.edu/tcs/ and query under
“SICB.”
Note from Drs. Ernest H. and Lucy Bunkley-Williams: all of their publications, including
many isopod papers, are available at this website:
http://biology.uprm.edu/facultad/index.php?prof=58&p=1&r=1#pub
Publications
Adorador, V. C., Bernardo, M.A., Gonzales,
J.L.L., Lam, A.C., Malijan, F.A.M., Papa,
R.D.S. and J. R. Castillo. 2006.
Morphological and DNA size-based
differences among Corallana spp. in
Oreochromis sp. found in open waters and
fish cages in Taal Lake. -- The Philippine
Biota. Vol. 39, No. 2. Pp. 5-11.
Alas, A., A. Öktener, A. Iscimen, and J.P. Trilles. 2008. New host record,
Parablennius sanguinolentus (Teleostei,
Perciformes,Blenniidae) for Nerocila
bivittata (Crustacea, Isopoda,
Cymothoidae). -- Parasitological
Research 102:645-646.
An, J.M., H.Y. Yu and J. Williams.
2008. Four new records and a new
species of Dactylokepon Stebbing, 1910
(Epicaridea: Bopyridae: Ioninae) from
Chinese waters.—Journal of Natural
History 41(33-36): 2063-2079.
An, J.M., H.Y. Yu and X.Z. Li. 2008.
One new record genus of Bopyridae
(Crustacea,Isopoda, Epicaridea) from
China.—Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica
32(4): 1002-1003.
An, J.M., H. Y.Yu, and X.Z. Li. 2008.
Subfamily Argeiinae (Crustacea,
Isopoda, Epicaridea) from China.—Acta
Zootaxonomica Sinica. 33(1): 225-226.
Araujo, P.B. and S.Taiti. 2007.
Terrestrial isopods (Crustacea,
Oniscidea) from Rocas Atoll,
northeastern Brazil.—Arquivos do
Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(3):
347-355.
Araujo, P. B. and M. Almerao. 2007.
Nova especie de Trichorhina (Isopoda,
Oniscidea, Platyarthridae) do Brasil.—
Iheringia - Serie Zoologia 97(2): 219222.
Botosaneanu, L. and T. Iliffe. 2007.
Discovery of a third stygobitic species of
Gnathostenetroididae (Isopoda Asellota),
and additional information on some
other stygobitic isopods (Cirolanidae)
from the Caribbean.—Subterranean
Biology 5: 15-22.
Brandt, A. 2008. Leben in Kaelte und
Dunkel- Wirbellose Tiere der
suedpolaren Tiefsee.—Meer und
Museum 20: 114-122.
Brandt, A. and J. Berge. 2008. Peracarid
composition, diversity and species
richness in the area of the Northwest
Water Polyna, East Greenland
(Crustacea, Malacostraca).—Polar
Biology 31(1): 15-22.
Brandt, A. and H.-G. Andres. 2008.
Description of Aega sarsae sp. nov. and
redescription of Syscenus atlanticus
Kononenko, 1988 (Crustacea, Isopoda,
Aegidae) from the mid-Atlantic ridge.—
Marine Biology Research 4(1-2): 61-75.
Bruce, N.L. 2008. New species of
Tridentella Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda:
Cymothoida: Tridentellidae), tropical
marine isopod crustaceans from the
Banda Sea, Indonesia.—Zootaxa 1734:
43-58.
Bunkley-Williams, L., E.H. Williams, Jr.
and A. K. M. Bashirulla. 2007. Isopod
associates of Venezuelan marine
fishes.—Revista de Biologica
Tropical/International Journal of
Tropical Biology 54 (Supplement 3):
175-188.
Chaplin, E., S. Curran and M. Carla.
2007. Prevalence of the bopyrid isopod
Probopyrus pandalicola in the grass
shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, in four
tidal creeks on the South CarolinaGeorgia coast.—Journal of Parasitology
93(1): 73-77.
Choudbury, M. and A. Brandt. 2007.
Composition and distribution of benthic
isopod (Crustacea, Malacostraca)
families off the Victoria-Land Coast
(Ross Sea, Antarctica).—Polar Biology
30(11): 1431-1437.
Cooper, S.J.B., K.M. Saint, S. Taiti,
A.D. Austin and W.F. Humphreys. 2008.
Subterranean archipelago: mitochondrial
DNA phylogeography of stygobitic
isopods (Oniscidea: Haloniscus) from
the Yilgarn region of Western
Australia.—Invertebrate Systematics 22:
195-203.
Davidson, T.M. 2008. Prevalence and
distribution of the introduced burrowing
isopod, Sphaeroma quoianum, in the
intertidal zone of a temperature northeast
Pacific estuary (Isopoda, Flabellifera).—
Crustacean 81(2): 155-167.
Davidson, T.M., C. Hewitt, and M.
Campbell. 2008. Distribution, density
and habitat use among native and
introduced populations of the
Australasian burrowing isopod
Sphaeroma quoianum.—Biological
Invasions 10(4): 399-410.
Duan, J., J. An, and H.Yu. 2008. A new
species and two new record species of
genus Allokepon Markham, 1982
(Isopoda: Epicaridae: Bopyridae) from
China.—Zootaxa 1682: 62-68.
Ellingsen, K.E., A. Brandt, B. Ebbe and
K. Linse. 2008. Diversity and species
distribution of polychaetes, isopods and
bivalves in the Atlantic sector of the
deep Southern Ocean.—Polar Biology
30(10): 1265-1273.
Farkas, S. 2004. Data to the knowledge
of the terrestrial isopod (Isopoda:
Oniscidea) fauna of Somogy county
(Hungary: South Transdubia).—
Somogyi Museumok Kozlemenyei 16:
313-323.
Farkas, S. 2006(2007). The terrestrial
isopod fauna of South Transdanubia
(Hungary).—Somogyi Museumok
Kozlemenyei 17B: 159-168.
Giarranto, E., L. Comoglio and O. Amin.
2007. Heavy metal toxicity in
Exosphaeroma gigas (Crustacea,
Isopoda) from the coastal zone of Beagle
Channel.—Ecotoxicology and
Environmental Safety 68(3): 451-462.
Golovan. O. A. 2007. Mirabilicoxa
kussakini sp. nov. A new species of
Desmosomatidae (Crusteacea, Isopoda,
Asellota) from the Sea of Japan.—
Invertebrate Zoology 33 (6): 365-374.
Gouws, G. 2008. New species of
Mesamphisopus, an endemic South
African freshwater isopod genus (Isopoda:
Phreatoicidea: Mesamphisopidae).—
Zootaxa 1690: 1-62.
Hadfield, K.A., and Smit, N.J. 2008.
Description of a new gnathiid,
Afrignathia multicavea gen. et sp. n.
(Crustacea: Isopoda: Gnathiidae) from
South Africa. African Zoology 42: 8189.
Horiguchi, H., M. Hironaka, V. MeyerRichow, and T. Hariyama. 2007. Water
uptake via two pairs of specialized legs
in Ligia exotica (Crustacea, Isopoda).—
Biological Bulletin Woods Hole 213(2):
196-203.
Innal, D., R. Kirkim and F. Erk’akan.
2007. The parasitic isopods, Anilocra
frontalis and Anilocra physodes
(Crustacea: Isopoda) on some marine
fish in Antalaya Gulf, Turkey.—Bulletin
of the European Association of Fish
Pathologists 27(6): 239-241.
Jaume, D. and E. Queiennec. 2007. A
new species of freshwater isopod
(Sphaeromatidea: Sphaeromatidae) from
an inland karstic stream on Espiritu
Santo Island, Vanuatu, southwestern
Pacific. –Zootaxa 1653: 41-55.
Jones, C., T. Miller, A. Grutter, and T.
Cribb. 2008. Natatory stage cymothoid
isopods: description, molecular
identification and evolution of
attachment.—International Journal for
Parasitology 38(3-4): 477-491.
Kaiser, S. and S. Brix. 2007.
Pseudomesus Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda,
Asellota) from the Southern hemisphere:
Pseudomesus pitombo sp. nov. and
Pseudomesus satanus sp. nov.—
Zootaxa 1658: 21-38.
Karaman, I. and M. Horvatovic. 2008.
Mladenoniscus belovodae n.g., n. sp., a
troglobitic oniscid (Isopoda: Oniscidea:
Trichoniscidae) from Macdeonia.—
Zootaxa 1687: 60-66.
Kavanagh, F., A. Wilson and D.F.
George. 2007. Revision of the genus
Haplomesus (Isopoda: Asellota:
Ischnomesidae) with erection of four
new genera.—Invertebrate Systematics
21(5): 487-535.
Ketmaier, V., D. Joyce, T. Horton, and
S. Mariani. 2008. A molecular
phylogenetic framework for the
evolution of parasitic strategies in
cymothoid isopods (Crustacea).—
Journal of Zoological Systematics and
Evolutionary Research 46(1): 19-23.
King, R. 2008. A re-description of
Accalathura crenulata (Richardson,
1901) from type material and the
description of two new Accalathura
species (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Cymothoida).-- Zootaxa 1761: 17–29.
Linsenmair, K. 2008. Sociobiology of
terrestrial isopods. Pp. 339-364 In:
Duffy, E., and Theil, M. [Eds.]
Evolutionary ecology of social and
sexual systems: crustaceans as model
organisms. Oxford University Press,
Oxford, New York. Pp. 1-502.
Lock, K. 2008. Haplophthalmus
montivagus Verhoeff, 1940: a new
species from Belguim (Isopoda
Trichoniscidae).—Bulletin de la Société
Belge d’Entomologie 143(1-6): 22-25.
Martin, A. and J.D. Yusbelly. 2008.
Biodiversidad de crustaceos peracaridos
en el delta de Rio Orinoco, Venezuela.—
Revista de Biologica Tropical 55: 87102.
Nunomura, N. 2008. Two new species of
the genus Lucasoides (Crustacea,
Isopod) from mole’s tunnels of Nantoshi, Toyama, middle Japan.—Bulletin of
the Toyama Science Museum 31: 3-11.
Nunomura, N. 2008. Marine isopod
Crustaceans collected from Shijiki Bay,
western Japan (1) Valvifera,
Cymothoida, Sphaeromatidea,
Limnoriidea and Oniscidea.—Bulletin of
the Toyama Science Museum 31: 13-43.
Nunomura, N., K. Satake and R. Ueno.
2008. A new species of Spherillo
(Crustacea: Isopoda) from Hahajima,
Bonin Islands, southern Japan.— Bulletin
of the Toyama Science Museum 31: 4550.
Ortiz, M., R. Lalana and C. Varela. 2007.
Una nueva especies de isópodo (Isopoda,
Flabellifera, Cirolanidae) de las aguas
profundas del Sur de Cuba.—Avicennia
19: 37-44.
Piksa, K. and S. Farkas. 2007. The first
records of the cave isopod Mesoniscus
graniger (Frivaldsky, 1865) (Crustacea,
Isopoda, Oniscidea) in Poland.—
Fragmenta Faunistica Warsaw 50(2): 8790.
Quadros, A.F. and P. B. Araujo. 2008.
An assemblage of terrestrial isopods
Crustacea) in southern Brazil and its
contribution to leaf litter processing. —
Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25(1): 5866.
Quadros, A. F. and P. B. Araujo. 2007.
Ecological traits of two neotropical
oniscideans (Crustacea: Isopoda).—Acta
Zoologica Sinica 53(2): 241-249.
Ralston, E. , A. Bacon and K. Johnson.
2007. In situ phototaxis of zooplankton
in the Indian River Lagoon (Florida)
determined using light traps.—Florida
Scientist 70(4): 489-505.
Saska, P. 2008. Philoscia muscorum
(Crustacea: Oniscidea: Philosciidae),
new species of terrestrial isopod for the
Czech Republic.—Bohemia Centralis
28: 437-440.
Scarsbrook, M., J. Barquin and D. Gray.
2007. New Zealand coldwater springs
and their biodiversity.—Science for
Conservation, Wellington 278:1-72.
Shimomura, M. 2008. Bathycopea
(Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae: Ancinidae)
from Japan, with descriptions of two
new species and redescription of B.
parallela Birstein.—Zootaxa 1678: 2549.
Shimomura, M. 2008. A new species of
Symmius Richardson (Crustacea:
Isopoda: Chaetiliidae) from Japan. –
Zootaxa 1719: 61-68.
Shimomura, M. and H. Ariyama. 2008.
A new asellote isopod of the genus
Microjanira Schiecke & Fresi, 1970
(Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae)
from Japan.—Bulletin of Kitakyushu
Museum of Natural History and Human
History, Ser. A 6: 13-18.
Shuster, S. and E. Arnold. 2007. The
effect of females on male-male
competition in the isopod, Paracerceis
sculpta: a reaction norm approach to
behavioral plasticity.—Journal of
Crustacean Biology 27(3): 417-424.
Smith, A.E., J.W. Chapman and B.R.
Dumbauld. 2008. Population structure
and energetics of the bopyrid isopod
parasite Orthione griffenis in mud
shrimp Upogebia pugettensis.—Journal
of Crustacean Biology 28(2): 228-233.
Tajovsky, K. 2006. Terrestrial isopods
(Isopoda: Oniscidea) of Kokorinsko
Landscape Protected Area.-- Bohemia
Centralis 27: 189-197. [In Czech].
Talley, T. and J. Crooks. 2008. Habitat
conversion associated with bioeroding
marine isopods. Pp. 185-202 In:
Cuddington, K., Byers, J., Wilson, W.
and Hastings, A. [Eds.], Ecosystem
engineers: plants to protists. Elsevier
Academic Press, Amsterdam, Boston,
etc. Pp. 1-505.
Tanaka, K. and E. Nishi. 2008. Habitat
use by the gnathiid isopod
Elaphognathia discolor living in
terebellid polychaete tubes. –Journal of
the Marine Biological Association of the
U.K. 88(1): 57-63.
Thompson, G.A. and de Bock, M. 2008.
Population dynamics of Excirolana
armata (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) in Buenos
Aires beaches, Argentina.—Revista de
Biologica Tropical 55: 131-140.
Tuf, I. and J. Tofova. 2005.
Communities of terrestrial isopods
(Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) in
epigeon of oak-hornbeam forests of SW
Slovakia.—Ekologia Bratislava 24: 113123.
Vilisics, F. 2007. New and rare species
in the isopod fauna of Hungary
(Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea): results
of field surveys and revisions.—Folia
Historico Naturalia Musei Matraensis
31: 115-123.
Warburg, M. R. 2007. Distribution,
reproduction, and relative abundance of
oniscids: a long-term study on isopods
(Isopoda: Oniscidea) in Israel.—
Crustaceana 80(10): 1223-1252.
Wirkner, C. and S. Richter. 208.
Morphology of the haemolymph
vascular system in Tanaidacea and
Cumacea: implications for the
relationships of ‘core group’ Peracarida
(Malacostraca; Crustacea).—Arthropod
Structure and Development 37(2): 141154.
Wilson, G. D. F. 2008. Global diversity
of isopod crustaceans (Crustacea;
Isopoda) in freshwater.—Hydrobiologia
595: 231-240.
Wilson, G. D. F. 2008. Gondwanan
groundwater: subterranean connections
of Australian Phreatoicidean isopods
(Crustacea) to India and New Zealand.—
Invertebrate Systematics 22: 301-310.
Wilson, G. D. F. 2008. A review of
taxonomic concepts in the
Nannoniscidae (Isopoda, Asellota) with
a key to the genera and a description of
Nannoniscus oblongus Sars.—Zootaxa
1680: 1-24.
Yu, H.Y., X.J. Ding, and J.Y.Zhang.
2007. A new Chinese record species –
Alitropus typus Milne Edwards, 1840
(Isopoda, Aegidae).—Acta
Zootaxonomica Sinica 32(4): 10001001.