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Eudactylinidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Subclass
  
Copepoda

Rank
  
Family

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Class
  
Maxillopoda

Order
  
Siphonostomatoida

Similar
  
Siphonostomatoida, Lernaeopodidae, Pennellidae, Lernanthropus

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). The family Eudactylinidae contains the following genera:

  • 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
  • References

    Eudactylinidae Wikipedia