Acantholochus

Tags: Crustacean.

Acantholochus is a genus of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus Hamaticolax by the absence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxillipeds.

class: Copepod, Maxillopoda
family: Bomolochidae
kingdom: Animal
order: Poecilostomatoida
phylum: Arthropod, Crustacean

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