''Cephalobaena'' is a genus 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 ...

in the subclass

Pentastomida The Pentastomida are an enigmatic group of parasitic arthropods commonly known as tongue worms due to the resemblance of the species of the genus ''Linguatula'' to a vertebrate tongue; molecular studies point to them being degenerate crustaceans. ...

. It has only one species, ''Cephalobaena tetrapoda'', and is the only genus in the

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

order Cephalobaenida, and the family Cephalobaenidae .

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{{Taxonbar, from1=Q6554014, from2=Q18510344, from3=Q23045770, from4=Q107100661 Crustaceans Monotypic crustacean genera