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Clausidium

Clausidium
Clausidium dissimile
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Copepoda
Order: Cyclopoida
Family: Clausidiidae
Genus: Clausidium
Kossmann, 1875
Synonyms [1]

Hersilia Philippi, 1839

Clausidium is a genus of copepods that have been found in subtopical to temperate coastal areas along the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts of South America, the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe, the Atlantic coast of Africa, and the coast of India.[2]

All of the known species occur on the bodies of mud shrimp (a.k.a. ghost shrimp) of the families Callianassidae and Upogebiidae, or from water collected from their burrows. Clausidium adhere tenaciously to the host, moving easily over the surface, appendages and into the gill chamber.[3] They are occasionally observed swimming free of the host; however, this behavior is uncommon.[4] The relationship between Clausidium and its host has not been definitively characterized, but may be commensalism.

The adult male is much smaller than the adult female and is usually found firmly grasping the anal segment of the female.

Morphologically the genus is very homogeneous. The unique identifying features seem correlated with the two behaviors of adhesion to the host and the male prehension on the female. The endopod of leg 1 is thick and modified with suckers. Leg 1 of the female also has a distinct large blade-like seta. Partial suckers are on the endopods of legs 2 through 4. Folds and projections on the anal segment of the female apparently complement the structure of the male maxilliped.[3]

Clausidium contains the following species:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b T. Chad Walter (2009). T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (ed.). "Clausidium Kossmann, 1875". World Copepoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 16, 2010.
  2. ^ Terue C. Kihara, and Carlos E. F. Rocha (2013). First record of Clausidium (Copepoda, Clausidiidae) from Brazil: a new species associated with ghost shrimps Neocallichirus grandimana (Gibbes, 1850) (Decapoda, Callianassidae). ZooKeys 335: 47–67.
  3. ^ a b Gooding, Richard U. (1963). External morphology and classification of marine poecilostome copepods belonging to the families Clausidiidae, Clausiidae, Nereicolidae, Eunicicolidae, Synaptiphilidae, Catiniidae, Anomopsyllidae, and Echiurophilidae. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle. pp. 1-247.
  4. ^ Hayes, Howard J. (1984). Biology of Clausidium dissimile: an epizoic copepod. M.Sc. Thesis, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A.


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