Pennellidae
Sign in to savethumb|Complete life cycle of a pennellid, Peniculus minuticaudae Shiino, 1956 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), infecting cultured threadsail filefish, [[Stephanolepis cirrhifer]]
Species
ヒジキムシ／ペンネラ科
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassCopepoda
- OrderSiphonostomatoida
- FamilyPennellidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 24
- Family
- Pennellidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, AM, WAM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- United States, Solomon Islands, Australia, Brasil, Japan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Siphonostomatoida
- Image
- Lernaeenicus sprattae.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pennellidae
- taxon name
- Pennellidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Pennellidae
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|Complete life cycle of a pennellid, Peniculus minuticaudae Shiino, 1956 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), infecting cultured threadsail filefish, [[Stephanolepis cirrhifer]]
Pennellidae is a family of parasitic copepods. When anchored on a host, they have a portion of the body on the outside of the host, whereas the remaining anterior part of the parasite is hidden inside tissues of the host.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pennellidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.