Collocheres elegans

Collocheres elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Subclass: Copepoda
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Asterocheridae
Genus: Collocheres
A. Scott, 1896[1]
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Collocheres elegans
Synonyms

Leptomyzon elegans (Scott A., 1896)

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

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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