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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Maxillopoda (class) » Siphonostomatoida (order) » Caligidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 27 383000 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Caligidae - undifferentiated |
| CAAB category: | 27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca Copepods, ostracods, barnacles, and minor crustacean groups | |
| Family: | Caligidae (parasitic copepods) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | parasitic copepods | |
| Common Names List: | parasitic copepods | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Child Codes: |
27 383903
Abasia spp. 27 383904 Alebion spp. 27 383905 Anuretes spp. 27 383906 Caligodes spp. 27 383901 Caligus spp. 27 383907 Hermilius spp. 27 383908 Lepeophtheirus spp. 27 383909 Mappates spp. 27 383910 Pupulina spp. 27 383902 Sinocaligus spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a parasitic copepod |
| Taxon Notes: | This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available. | ||
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| Scientific Name verified against: | Boxshall, G., 2018. The sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) of Moreton Bay (Queensland, Australia), with descriptions of thirteen new species., Zootaxa, Vol. 4398(1): 1-172. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4398.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4398.1.1 |