Clausidium
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Clausidium is a genus
of copepod
s, containing the following species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of copepod
Copepod
Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...
s, containing the following species:
- Clausidium apodiformis (Philippi, 1839)
- Clausidium californiense C. B. Wilson, 1935
- Clausidium caudatum (Say, 1818)
- Clausidium chelatum Pillai, 1959
- Clausidium dissimile C. B. Wilson, 1921
- Clausidium saldanhae Kensley, 1974
- Clausidium searsi C. B. Wilson, 1937
- Clausidium senegalense Humes, 1957
- Clausidium tenax Humes, 1949
- Clausidium testudo Kossmann, 1867
- Clausidium travancorense Pillai, 1959
- Clausidium vancouverenseClausidium vancouverenseClausidium vancouverense, the red copepod, is a symbiont of the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis. It is one of six species in the genus Clausidium and is found with its host in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California....
(Haddon, 1912)