Collocheres elegans

Collocheres elegans is a species of copepod in the family Asterocheridae. It is found in the British Isles and West Norway.

Collocheres elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Asterocheridae
Genus: Collocheres
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Collocheres elegans
A. Scott, 1896[1]
Synonyms

Leptomyzon elegans (Scott A., 1896)

It is infesting Ophiocomina nigra, the black brittle star, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.[2]

References

  1. A. Scott, Report for 1895 of the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratorium p. 52, Pl. V, figs. 6—15.
  2. Collocheres elegans, a cyclostome copepod infesting Ophiocomina nigra in the Firth of Clyde. S Gorzula - Western Naturalist, 1978


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