| Archidactylina myxinicola | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Siphonostomatoida |
| Family: | Archidactylinidae Izawa, 1996 [1] |
| Genus: | Archidactylina Izawa, 1996 |
| Species: | A. myxinicola
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| Binomial name | |
| Archidactylina myxinicola Izawa, 1996
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Archidactylina is a genus of copepods that contains only the species Archidactylina myxinicola, and is the only genus in the family Archidactylinidae. It is a parasite of the gill pouches of two species of hagfish found in Japanese waters, Eptatretus okinoseanus and Myxine garmani.[2][3]
- ^ T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (2015). "Archidactylinidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
- ^ Boxshall, G. A.; Halsey, S. H. (2004). An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. The Ray Society. pp. 707–709.
- ^ Izawa, K. (1996). "Archidactylina myxinicola, new genus, new species (Siphonostomatoida), in a new family of Copepoda parasitic on hagfishes (Agnatha: Myxiniformes) from Japan". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 16 (2): 406–417. doi:10.1163/193724096X00199.