Acantholochus

Taxobox
name = "Acantholochus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Maxillopoda
subclassis = Copepoda
ordo = Poecilostomatoida
familia = Bomolochidae
genus = "Acantholochus"
genus_authority = Cressey, 1984

"Acantholochus" is a genus of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Members of this genus can be distinguished from other bomolochids by the presence of hooks on the rostrum, heavily sclerotized spines on the third exopod and the lack of modified setae on the antennule.

pecies

Species include:
*"A. asperatus"
*"A. crevalleus"
*"A. divaricatus"
*"A. galeichthyos"
*"A. haemulonis"
*"A. nasus"
*"A. nudiusculus"
*"A. paralabracis"
*"A. unisagittatus"

References

* [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/copepod/ World of copepods]
*cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/mioc/v98n2/v98n2a13.pdf |title=A New Species of "Acantholochus" (Copepoda: Bomolochidae) Parasitic on "Centropomus undecimalis" (Osteichthyes: Centropomidae) from the Coastal Zone of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |journal=Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz |volume=98 |year=2003 |author=Luiz ER Tavares & José L Luque |pages=241–245