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Collocheres elegans

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Collocheres elegans
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Genus:
A. Scott, 1896[1]
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Collocheres elegans
Synonyms

Leptomyzon elegans (Scott A., 1896)

Collocheres elegans is a species of copepods in the family Asterocheridae. It is found in the British Isles and West Norway.

It is infesting Ophiocomina nigra, the black brittle star, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.[2]

References

  1. ^ A. Scott, Report for 1895 of the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratorium p. 52, Pl. V, figs. 6—15.
  2. ^ Collocheres elegans, a cyclostome copepod infesting Ophiocomina nigra in the Firth of Clyde. S Gorzula - Western Naturalist, 1978

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