Ione ovata Shiino, 1964

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 : 2052

Ione ovata Shiino, 1964

Remarks

Ione ovata parasitizes the ghost shrimps Neotrypaea uncinata , Notiax brachyophthalma and Callichirus seilacheri (the senior synonym of C. garthi Retamal, 1975 fide Sakai 1999) ( Muñoz 2001), although Muñoz and Olmos (2007) listed only the first two hosts. Prevalence has been recorded up to 4% in N. uncinata ( Muñoz and George-Nascimento 1999) , 2.2% N. brachyophthalma and 0.1% in C. seilacheri ( Muñoz 2001) . This bopyrid has been recorded for two localities in the north-central region of Chile (Concepción and Puerto Montt) from intertidal sand–mud beaches ( Shiino 1964; Muñoz and George-Nascimento 1999) but is much less abundant than Ionella agassizi , which has been reported from the same localities.