Linguatulidae is a family of
crustacean
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 can ...
s belonging to the order
Porocephalida
Porocephalida is an Order (biology), order of tongue worms. Some species in this order, such as ''Armillifer grandis'', have been found in vipers, with some found in vipers from Bushmeat, bushmeat markets.
Superfamilies and families
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Genera
There following genera are recognised in the family Linguatulidae:[
* '']Linguatula
''Linguatula'' is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the family Linguatulidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Species
There are four species recognised in the genus ''Linguatula'':
*''Linguatula arctica''
*''Linguatula multiannulat ...
'' Frölich, 1789
* '' Neolinguatula'' Haffner & Rack, 1969
* '' Tetragulus'' Bosc, 1811
References
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Crustacean families
Taxa named by Samuel Stehman Haldeman