thumb|Complete life cycle of a pennellid, Peniculus minuticaudae Shiino, 1956 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), infecting cultured threadsail filefish, [[Stephanolepis cirrhifer]]
FAMILY
via GBIF
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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).