Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Ergasilida

Splanchnotrophidae Norman & Scott T., 1906

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Lomanoticola Scott T. & Scott A., 1895
Splanchnotrophus Hancock & Norman, 1863

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウミウシヤドリ科

Literature

original description	Norman, A.M. & T. Scott. (1906). The Crustacea of Devon and Cornwall. London: William Wesley and Son. 232 pp., pls. 1-24.
additional source	Huys, R. (2001). Splanchnotrophid systematics: a case of polyphyly and taxonomic myopia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21(1):106-156. (ii.2001)
additional source	Ho, J.S. (1981). Ismaila occulta, a new species of poecilostomatoid copepod parasitic in a dendronotid nudibranch from California. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1(1):130-136, figs. 1-3. (20-iii-1981)
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
additional source	Uyeno, D. & K. Nagasawa. (2012). Four new species of splanchnotrophid copepods (Poecilostomatoida) parasitic on doridacean nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from Japan, with proposition of one new genus. ZooKeys. 247: 1-29.
additional source	Salmen, A., F. Kaligis, G.E. Mamangkey & M. Schroedl. (2008). Arthurius bunakenensis, a new tropical Indo-Pacific species of endoparasitic copepods from a sacoglossan opisthobranch host (Crustacea, Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida, Splanchnotrophidae). Spixiana. 31(2):199-205.
additional source	Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 252-268
redescription	Haumayr, U. & M. Schrödl. (2003). Revision of the endoparasitic copepod genus Ismaila Bergh, 1867, with description of eight new species (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida, Splanchnotrophidae). Spixiana 26(1):1-33.