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Ergasilids
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Ergasilids

Ergasilidae

Ergasilidae is a widespread family of copepods and comprises many species. The type genus is Ergasilus. With a few doubtful exceptions all ergasilids are parasitic on fishes.

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9 branches of this family, most-observed first

Ergasilus

genusErgasilus

Thersitina

genusThersitina

Neoergasilus

genusNeoergasilus

Urogasilus

genusUrogasilus

Dermoergasilus

genusDermoergasilus

Mugilicola

genusMugilicola

Paraergasilus

genusParaergasilus

Nipergasilus

genusNipergasilus

Abergasilus

genusAbergasilus

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 339090.