Pleurocope

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Isopoda
Subordo: Asellota
Superfamilia: Janiroidea

Familia: Pleurocopidae
Genus: Pleurocope
Species: P. dasyura – P. floridensis – P. iriomotensis – P. wilsoni
Name

Pleurocope Walker, 1901

Type-species: Pleurocope dasyura Walker, 1901, by monotypy
References

Shimomura, M. & Naruse, T. 2015. Two new species of Asellota (Crustacea, Isopoda) from coral reefs on Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan. Zookeys 520: 27-40. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.520.5943 Full article Reference page.
Walker, A.O. (1901) Contributions to the malacostracan fauna of the Mediterranean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 28 (182): 290–306.

Pleurocope is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the monotypic family Pleurocopidae.[1]

The species of this genus are found in Central America.[1]

Species:[1]

Pleurocope dasyura Walker, 1901
Pleurocope floridensis Hooker, 1985
Pleurocope iriomotensis Shimomura & Naruse, 2015
Pleurocope wilsoni Kensley & Schotte, 2002

References

"Pleurocope Walker, 1901". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 June 2021.