Bathione humboldtensis ( Pardo, Guisado and Acuña, 1998 )

Pardo, Luis Miguel, Boyko, Christopher B. & Mantelatto, Fernando L., 2009, Description of a new species of Asymmetrione (Isopoda: Bopyridae: Pseudioninae) infesting the hermit crab Paguristes tomentosus (Anomura: Diogenidae) from Peru, with a key to species and a review of southeastern Pacific bopyrids, Journal of Natural History 43 (33 - 34), pp. 2041-2055 : 2051

Bathione humboldtensis ( Pardo, Guisado and Acuña, 1998)

Remarks

Bathione humboldtensis parasitizes two commercial squat lobster species, Cervimunida johni and Pleuroncodes monodon . The prevalence varies temporally and spatially, as Pardo et al. (1998) reported infestations of 5.8% (n = 1530) in C. johni and 0.4% (n = 1440) in P. monodon from Coquimbo in north-central Chile. However, González and Acuña (2004) subsequently recorded a much higher prevalence from the same locality, with 13.6% (n = 1214) for C. johni and 18.2% (n = 1214) for P. monodon , while reporting only 6.8% (n = 221) for C. johni and 0.6% (n = 463) for P. monodon in Huasco and Caldera, respectively. Both hosts showed a negative effect on growth and reproduction from bopyrid infestation ( González and Acuña 2004).