Brychiopontiidae is a family of
crustaceans
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
belonging to the order
Siphonostomatoida
Siphonostomatoida is an order of copepods, containing around 75% of all the copepods that parasitise fishes. Their success has been linked to their possession of siphon-like mandibles and of a "frontal filament" to aid attachment to their hosts. ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Brychiopontius''
Humes, 1974
* ''
Neobrychiopontius''
Mahatma, MartÃnez Arbizu & Ivanenko, 2008
* ''
Pseudobrychiopontius''
Avdeev, 2017
References
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Siphonostomatoida