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Cancricepon elegans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Family:	Bopyridae
Genus:	Cancricepon
Species:	C. elegans
Binomial name
Cancricepon elegans Giard & Bonnier, 1887
Synonyms
Cepon elegans Giard & Bonnier, 1886 (nomen nudum)

Cancricepon elegans is a species of isopod that parasitises the crab Pilumnus hirtellus. It was originally described from French waters and has since been found off the coast of Great Britain.

References

1. A. Giard & J. Bonnier (1887). "Contributions à l'étude des bopyriens" [Contributions to the study of the Bopyridae]. Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux (in French). 5: 1–272.
2. Jianmei An, Haiyan Yu & Jason D. Williams (2012). "A new species of Cancricepon Giard & Bonnier, 1887 (Isopoda: Bopyridae) from China". Systematic Parasitology. 83 (3): 243–248. doi:10.1007/s11230-012-9381-8. PMID 23065306.
3. R. Hamond (1974). "The marine and brackish-water non-amphipodan peracaridan Crustacea of Norfolk". Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 19 (2): 197–213.

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