Tags: Crustacean.

Lepeophtheirus is a genus of sea lice. The best-known species is L. salmonis the salmon louse. Other species include L. pectoralis which uses flatfish as its host particularly the European flounder.

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class
Copepod, Maxillopoda
family
Sea louse
kingdom
Animal
order
Siphonostomatoida
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Indocaligus (Pillai 1961), *Dentigryps (C. B. Wilson 1913), *Pseudolepeophtheirus (Markevich 1940), *Chalimus (Burmeister 1834), *Homoiotes (C. B. Wilson 1905), *Lepeophteirus (Nordmann 1832)

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