Corallovexiidae

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Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Crustacea Order Cyclopoida Higher classification Poecilostomatoida		Phylum Arthropoda Subclass Copepoda Scientific name Corallovexiidae Rank Family
Similar Copepod, Crustacean, Poecilostomatoida

The Corallovexiidae are a family of parasitic copepods associated with corals and, together with members of the family Asterocheridae, dominate their ecological niche in the West Indies; in the Indo-Pacific, they are replaced by the families Lichomolgidae and Xarifiidae.

The family contains two genera and 10 species, all described by Jan Hendrik Stock in 1975:

Corallonoxia Stock, 1975

Corallonoxia baki Stock, 1975

Corallonoxia longicauda Stock, 1975

Corallovexia Stock, 1975

Corallovexia brevibrachium Stock, 1975

Corallovexia dorsospinosa Stock, 1975

Corallovexia kristenseni Stock, 1975

Corallovexia longibrachium Stock, 1975

Corallovexia mediobrachium Stock, 1975

Corallovexia mixtibrachium Stock, 1975

Corallovexia similis Stock, 1975

Corallovexia ventrospinosa Stock, 1975

References

Corallovexiidae Wikipedia

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