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". WoRMS. 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.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archidactylinidae
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