Archidactylina

Archidactylina myxinicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Subclass: Copepoda
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Archidactylinidae
Izawa, 1996 [1]
Genus: Archidactylina
Izawa, 1996
Species: A. myxinicola
Binomial name
Archidactylina myxinicola
Izawa, 1996

Archidactylina is a genus of copepods that contains only the species Archidactylina myxinicola, and is the only genus in the family Archidactylinidae. It is a parasite of the gill pouches of two species of hagfish found in Japanese waters, Eptatretus okinoseanus and Myxine garmani.[2][3]

References

  1. T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (2015). "Archidactylinidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
  2. Boxshall, G. A.; Halsey, S. H. (2004). An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. The Ray Society. pp. 707–709.
  3. Izawa, K. (1996). "Archidactylina myxinicola, new genus, new species (Siphonostomatoida), in a new family of Copepoda parasitic on hagfishes (Agnatha: Myxiniformes) from Japan". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 16 (2): 406–417. doi:10.1163/193724096X00199.
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