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NUCELLICOLIDAE: A NEW FAMILY OF ENDOPARASITIC COPEPODS (POECILOSTOMATOIDA) FROM THE DOG WHELK NUCELLA LAPILLUS (GASTROPODA)

NUCELLICOLIDAE: A NEW FAMILY OF ENDOPARASITIC COPEPODS (POECILOSTOMATOIDA) FROM THE DOG WHELK... and The Copepoda contains well over 11,000 species (Humes, 1994), exhibiting an ex- tremely wide diversity in form and mode of life. Copepods have colonized habitats en- compassing a considerable range of salinity and temperature regimes, and an immense vertical range from ocean trenches to mountain lakes (Huys and Boxshall, 1991). Many copepods are plant and animal asso- ciates, parasitizing virtually every phylum of animals from sponges and cnidarians to vertebrates, including mammals. Many spe- cies are parasitic on fishes (Kabata, 1992) or are associated with marine invertebrates (Gotto, 1993). The associates of marine in- vertebrate hosts display an enormous spec- trum of structural diversity, varying in part with the degree of intimacy of association with the host: the more intimate the asso- ciation, the more profound the transforma- tion of the parasite. Many of those parasitic on invertebrates belong to the order Poecilostomatoida, a number of families of which contain spe- cies that are known to parasitize molluscs world-wide. Those belonging to several families, including the Mytilicolidae Boc- quet and Stock, 1957, Chitonophilidae Avdeev and Sirenko, 1991, and Splanch- notrophidae Norman and Scott, 1906, are parasitic exclusively on molluscs. In Britain only seven poecilostomatoid species are known http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Crustacean Biology Brill

NUCELLICOLIDAE: A NEW FAMILY OF ENDOPARASITIC COPEPODS (POECILOSTOMATOIDA) FROM THE DOG WHELK NUCELLA LAPILLUS (GASTROPODA)

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Copyright 1996 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0278-0372
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1937-240X
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and The Copepoda contains well over 11,000 species (Humes, 1994), exhibiting an ex- tremely wide diversity in form and mode of life. Copepods have colonized habitats en- compassing a considerable range of salinity and temperature regimes, and an immense vertical range from ocean trenches to mountain lakes (Huys and Boxshall, 1991). Many copepods are plant and animal asso- ciates, parasitizing virtually every phylum of animals from sponges and cnidarians to vertebrates, including mammals. Many spe- cies are parasitic on fishes (Kabata, 1992) or are associated with marine invertebrates (Gotto, 1993). The associates of marine in- vertebrate hosts display an enormous spec- trum of structural diversity, varying in part with the degree of intimacy of association with the host: the more intimate the asso- ciation, the more profound the transforma- tion of the parasite. Many of those parasitic on invertebrates belong to the order Poecilostomatoida, a number of families of which contain spe- cies that are known to parasitize molluscs world-wide. Those belonging to several families, including the Mytilicolidae Boc- quet and Stock, 1957, Chitonophilidae Avdeev and Sirenko, 1991, and Splanch- notrophidae Norman and Scott, 1906, are parasitic exclusively on molluscs. In Britain only seven poecilostomatoid species are known

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Journal of Crustacean Biology – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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