2011
DOI: 10.1163/001121611x586693
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Changes in Secondary Sexual Characters of Males of Thor Floridanus (Decapoda, Hippolytidae), Infested by Bopyrinella Thorii (Isopoda, Bopyridae)

Abstract: This study describes changes in the secondary sexual characters of Thor floridanus Kingsley, 1878 males, caused by the isopod Bopyrinella thorii (Richardson, 1904). Of 380 specimens of T. floridanus examined, the females were more often infested (n = 313) than the males (n = 41), and had a wider size range (0.7-2.85 mm POCL) compared to the males (0.9-2.32 mm POCL); no ovigerous females of T. floridanus were found. In 25 males the appendix masculina was reduced in size, the endopod of the second pleopod was ba… Show more

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