Hamaticolax
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Hamaticolax is a genus of parasitic copepod
s belonging to the family Bomolochidae
. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus Acantholochus
by the presence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxillipeds. It includes the following species:
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 belonging to the family Bomolochidae
Bomolochidae
Bomolochidae is a family of parasitic copepods, containing the following genera:*Acanthocolax Vervoort, 1969*Acantholochus Cressey, 1984*Bomolochus Nordmann, 1832*Boylea Cressey, 1977*Ceratocolax Vervoort, 1965...
. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus Acantholochus
Acantholochus
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...
by the presence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxillipeds. It includes the following species:
- Hamaticolax attenuatus (C. B. Wilson, 1913)
- Hamaticolax embiotocae (Hanan, 1976)
- Hamaticolax galeichthyos (Luque & Bruno, 1990)
- Hamaticolax maleus (Oldewage, 1994)
- Hamaticolax occultus (Kabata, 1971)
- Hamaticolax paralabracis (Luque & Bruno, 1990)
- Hamaticolax prolixus (Cressey, 1969)
- Hamaticolax scutigerulus (C. B. Wilson, 1935)
- Hamaticolax spinulus (Cressey, 1969)
- Hamaticolax unisagittatus (Tavares & Luque, 2003)