Archidactylina Explained

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.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Boxshall, G. A. . Halsey, S. H. . An Introduction to Copepod Diversity . 2004 . The Ray Society . 707–709.
  2. Izawa, K. . 1996 . Archidactylina myxinicola, new genus, new species (Siphonostomatoida), in a new family of Copepoda parasitic on hagfishes (Agnatha: Myxiniformes) from Japan . . 16 . 2 . 406–417 . 10.1163/193724096X00199. free .

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