Eudactylinidae

Eudactylinidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Hexanauplia
Subclass:	Copepoda
Order:	Siphonostomatoida
Family:	Eudactylinidae; C. B. Wilson, 1932

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 ( and ).^[1] The family Eudactylinidae contains the following genera:^[2]

Cressey, 1966
Deets & Ho, 1988
Izawa, 2011
Eudactylina Van Beneden, 1853
C. B. Wilson, 1932
C. B. Wilson, 1932
Pillai, 1968
Deets & Ho, 1988
Benz, Smith, Bullard & Braswell, 2007
Deets & Benz, 1987
Risso, 1826
Laubier, Maillard & Oliver, 1966

References[]

^ Gregory B. Deets & Ju-shey Ho (1988). "Phylogenetic analysis of the Eudactylinidae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida), with descriptions of two new genera". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 101 (2): 317–339.
^ T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (2013). "Eudactylinidae". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 12, 2013.

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[1] Gregory B. Deets & Ju-shey Ho (1988). "Phylogenetic analysis of the Eudactylinidae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida), with descriptions of two new genera". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 101 (2): 317–339.

[2] T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (2013). "Eudactylinidae". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 12, 2013.

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