''Hamaticolax'' is a genus of
parasitic
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has c ...
copepod
Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthos, benthic (living on the ocean floor) ...
s belonging to the family
Bomolochidae. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus ''
Acantholochus'' by the presence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxillipeds.
It includes the following species:
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Hamaticolax attenuatus''
(C. B. Wilson, 1913)
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Hamaticolax embiotocae''
(Hanan, 1976)
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Hamaticolax galeichthyos''
(Luque & Bruno, 1990)
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Hamaticolax maleus''
(Oldewage, 1994)
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Hamaticolax occultus''
(Kabata, 1971)
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Hamaticolax paralabracis
''Hamaticolax'' is a genus of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus '' Acantholochus'' by the presence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxilliped ...
''
(Luque & Bruno, 1990)
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Hamaticolax prolixus
''Hamaticolax'' is a genus of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus '' Acantholochus'' by the presence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxilliped ...
''
(Cressey, 1969)
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Hamaticolax scutigerulus
''Hamaticolax'' is a genus of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus '' Acantholochus'' by the presence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxilliped ...
''
(C. B. Wilson, 1935)
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Hamaticolax spinulus
''Hamaticolax'' is a genus of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Its members can only be distinguished from the closely related genus ''Acantholochus'' by the presence of an accessory process on the claw of the maxillipeds. ...
''
(Cressey, 1969)
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Hamaticolax unisagittatus''
(Tavares & Luque, 2003)
References
Poecilostomatoida
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