Eudactylinidae

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]

  • Bariaka Cressey, 1966
  • Carnifossorius Deets & Ho, 1988
  • Dangoka Izawa, 2011
  • Eudactylina Van Beneden, 1853
  • Eudactylinella C. B. Wilson, 1932
  • Eudactylinodes C. B. Wilson, 1932
  • Eudactylinopsis Pillai, 1968
  • Heterocladius Deets & Ho, 1988
  • Janinecaira Benz, Smith, Bullard & Braswell, 2007
  • Jusheyus Deets & Benz, 1987
  • Nemesis Risso, 1826
  • Protodactylina Laubier, Maillard & Oliver, 1966

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Eudactylinidae

C. B. Wilson, 1932

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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