| Corallovexiidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Cyclopoida |
| Suborder: | Ergasilida |
| Family: | Corallovexiidae Stock, 1975 |
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The Corallovexiidae are a family of strictly marine[1] parasitic copepods associated with corals and, together with members of the family Asterocheridae, dominate their ecological niche in the West Indies; in the Indo-Pacific, they are replaced by the families Lichomolgidae and Xarifiidae.[2][3]
The family contains two genera and at least 10 species, all described by Jan Hendrik Stock in 1975.[1][2] After the 10 known and described species, there were three unknown species found in the Labrador Sea and one more found in the Curaçao.[4][5]
- ^ a b Stock JH (1975-01-01). "Corallovexiidae, a new family of transformed copepods endoparasitic in reef corals with two new genera and ten new species from Curaçao". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 47 (1): 1–45. ISSN 0166-5189.
- ^ a b Stock JH (1988). "Copepods associated with reef corals: a comparison between the Atlantic and the Pacific". Hydrobiologia. 167–168 (1): 545–547. doi:10.1007/BF00026350. S2CID 26628994.
- ^ Baillon S, Hamel JF, Mercier A (2014-11-04). "Diversity, distribution and nature of faunal associations with deep-sea pennatulacean corals in the Northwest Atlantic". PLOS ONE. 9 (11): e111519. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9k1519B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111519. PMC 4219758. PMID 25369515.
- ^ Butter ME (1979). "Biology and Infestation Rate of Corallonoxia Longicauda, an Endoparasitic Copepod of the West Indian Reef Coral Meandrina Meandrites". Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 48 (2): 141–155. doi:10.1163/26660644-04802004. ISSN 0067-8546.
- ^ Herriott AB, Immermann FW (1979). "A Preliminary Report on Copepods Endoparasitic in Stony Corals of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands". Crustaceana. 36 (2): 166–172. doi:10.1163/156854079X00357. ISSN 0011-216X. JSTOR 20103378.