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:
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