Ectinosomatidae

Taxobox
name = Ectinosomatidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Maxillopoda
subclassis = Copepoda
ordo = Harpacticoida
familia = Ectinosomatidae
familia_authority = Sars, 1903
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = 25Verify source|date=August 2008 , see text

Ectinosomatidae is a family of the Harpacticoida, a huge group of crustaceans belonging to the subclass Copepoda. Like most of their relatives, they are usually benthic inhabitants of marine environments. Ectinosomatidae commonly inhabit sediment and fragments of dead corals or glass sponges, and occasionally algae and bryozoans, in the deep oceans. In the epifaunal species, the first leg pair is often modified to allow the animals a better grip on the substrate. [Gheerardyn "et al." (2008)]

Genera

* "Alophytophilus"
* "Arenosetella"
* "Bradya" Boeck, 1873
* "Bradyellopsis" Brian, 1924
* "Ectinosoma" Boeck, 1865
* "Ectinosomella"
* "Ectinosomoides"
* "Halectinosoma" Lang, 1944
* "Halophytophilus" Brian, 1919
* "Hastigerella" Nicholls, 1935
* "Helectinsoma"
* "Kliella"
* "Klieosoma" Hicks & Schriever, 1985
* "Lineosoma" Wells, 1965
* "Microsetella" Brady & Robertson, 1873
* "Noodtiella"
* "Oikopus"
* "Parabradya" Lang, 1944
* "Pararenosetella"
* "Peltobradya" Médioni & Soyer, 1968
* "Pseudectinosoma"
* "Pseudobradya" Sars, 1904
* "Rangabradya"
* "Sigmatidium" Giesbrecht, 1881
* "Tetanopsis"