Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Hexanauplia
Subclassis: Copepoda
Infraclassis: Neocopepoda
Superordo: Podoplea
Ordo: Cyclopoida
Subordo: Poecilostomatoida
Genera Incertae sedis (5): Charlesia – Endocheres – Octophiophora – Stockella – Terebellicola

Name

Poecilostomatoida Thorell, 1859

Note:: (The poecilostome lineage lies within the order Cyclopoida (Khodami et al., 2017), and most families formerly included in Poecilostomatoida are now included in the suborder Ergasilida (Khodami et al., 2019).)

• Status:   invalid taxon   – no longer accepted by WoRMS

References

• Cheng, Y-R., Liu, S-Y. & Dai, C-F. 2016. A new family of poecilostomatoid copepods (Strepidae fam. nov.) associated with the sun coral, Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829 in Taiwan. In Huys (ed.), Recent Developments in Systematics and Biodiversity of Symbiotic Copepoda (Crustacea)—A Volume in Celebration of the Career of Prof. Il-Hoi Kim. Zootaxa 4174(1): 346–354. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4174.1.21. Reference page. 
• Díaz, A.R., Merlo Álvarez, V.H. & Damborenea, C. 2017. Type material housed in the Carcinological Collection of the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. Zootaxa 4303(1): 88–102. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.1.5. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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