Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Epicaridea > Superfamily Bopyroidea > Family Entoniscidae > Subfamily Entioninae

Cancrion Giard & Bonnier, 1887

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cancrion*	Giard & Bonnier, 1886	synonym; nom. nud.

Children

Cancrion floridus Giard & Bonnier, 1887
Cancrion miser Giard & Bonnier, 1887
Cancrion pilipedi Bourdon, 1960

Literature

original description	Giard, A.; Bonnier, J. (1887). Contributions a l'etude des bopyriens. Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux. 5: 1-272.
subsequent type designation	McDermott, J. J.; Williams, J. D.; Boyko, C. B. (2019). A new genus and species of parasitic isopod (Bopyroidea: Entoniscidae) infesting pinnotherid crabs (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) on the Atlantic coast of the USA, with notes on the life cycle of entoniscids. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 40: 97-114.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Cancrion Giard & Bonnier, 1887. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1350312