Biology:Collocheres elegans

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Short description: Species of copepod

Collocheres elegans
Collocheres elegans.jpg
Scientific classification edit
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)

Collocheres elegans is a species of copepod 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

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10457086 entry