Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Crustacea Order Poecilostomatoida Scientific name Acantholochus Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Subclass Copepoda Family Bomolochidae Higher classification Bomolochidae | |
Similar Copepod, Crustacean, Sphoeroides annulatus, Siphonostomatoida, Sphoeroides | ||
Acantholochus is a genus of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus Hamaticolax by the absence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxillipeds.
Species
It includes the following species:
The following species were formerly included in Acantholochus but are now placed in Hamaticolax:
References
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