| Clausidium vancouverense | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Cyclopoida |
| Family: | Clausidiidae |
| Genus: | Clausidium |
| Species: | C. vancouverense
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| Binomial name | |
| Clausidium vancouverense Haddon, 1912
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Clausidium vancouverense, the red copepod, is a symbiont of the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis.[1] It is one of six species in the genus Clausidium and is found with its host in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.[2]
- ^ A. D. Humes (1949). "A new copepod (Cyclopoida: Clausidiidae) parasitic on mud shrimps in Louisiana". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 68 (2): 93–103. doi:10.2307/3223256. JSTOR 3223256. PMID 18153316.
- ^ "Online Field Guide". Monterey Bay Aquarium. Archived from the original on May 24, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2008.