Eudactylinidae

Eudactylinidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Subclass: Copepoda
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Eudactylinidae
C. B. Wilson, 1932

Eudactylinidae is a family of copepods most of which live as parasites on the gills of elasmobranch fishes; two genera lives on the gills of teleost fishes (Heterocladius and Jusheyus).[1] The family Eudactylinidae contains the following genera:[2]

References

  1. Gregory B. Deets & Ju-shey Ho (1988). "Phylogenetic analysis of the Eudactylinidae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida), with descriptions of two new genera". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 101 (2): 317–339.
  2. T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (2013). "Eudactylinidae". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 12, 2013.


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