RHYNCHOMOLGIDAE Humes & Stock, 1972

"Rhynchomolgidae Humes and Stock, 1973 is one of the largest families of poecilostomatoid copepods comprising over 250 species living in association with various marine invertebrates (Ho and Kim 2001; Boxshall and Halsey 2004). There are 44 genera in the family Rhynchomolgidae with the genus Doridicola Leydig, 1853 being the largest in the family and comprising 52 species (Ho and Ivanenko 2013, Walter and Boxshall 2018)"(from: Conradi, Bandera, Mudrova & Ivanenko, 2018)

ACANTHOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Acanthomolgus aequiseta Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus affinis Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus ambonensis Kim I.H., 2007
  • Acanthomolgus arctatipes Humes, 1974
  • Acanthomolgus astrictus Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus bandaensis Kim I.H., 2007
  • Acanthomolgus bayeri Humes, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus bilobipes Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus boholensis Humes, 1990
  • Acanthomolgus brevifurca Humes, 1990
  • Acanthomolgus combinatus Humes, 1974
  • Acanthomolgus cuneipes (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus dionyx Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus dispadactylus Kim I.H., 2007
  • Acanthomolgus eminulus Humes & Lewbel, 1977
  • Acanthomolgus exilipes (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus fissisetiger (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus geminus Kim I.H., 2005
  • Acanthomolgus gentilis (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus gomumuensis Kim I.H., 2007
  • Acanthomolgus gorgoniae Humes, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus hales Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus hians (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus intermedius Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus longidactylus Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus longifurca Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus longispinifer (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus longiunguifer Kim I.H., 2005
  • Acanthomolgus mononyx Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus mopsellae Humes, 1974
  • Acanthomolgus muriceanus Humes, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus plantei Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus pollicaris Humes & Lewbel, 1977
  • Acanthomolgus seticornis Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus telestophilus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus tenuispinatus Kim I.H., 2009
  • Acanthomolgus triangulipes Stock, 1975
  • Acanthomolgus varirostratus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus verrucipes Humes, 1973
  • Acanthomolgus verseveldti (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Acanthomolgus longispinifer (Humes & Ho, 1968)

    KEY TO SPECIES OF ACANTHOMOLGUS

    ALCYONOMOLGUS Humes, 1990

  • Alcyonomolgus bicrenatus (Humes, 1982)
  • Alcyonomolgus dissimilis (Humes, 1982)
  • Alcyonomolgus incisus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Alcyonomolgus insolens (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Alcyonomolgus lumellifer Humes, 1990
  • Alcyonomolgus petalophorus (Humes, 1982)
  • Alcyonomolgus relativus (Humes, 1982)
  • Alcyonomolgus sarcophyticus (Humes, 1982)

    KEY TO SPECIES OF ALCYONOMOLGUS

    ANISOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Anisomolgus ensifer Humes, 1982
  • Anisomolgus goniodes Humes, 1982
  • Anisomolgus limbatus Humes & Dojiri, 1979
  • Anisomolgus protentus (Humes & Frost, 1964)
  • Anisomolgus pterolobatus Humes, 1982
  • Anisomolgus spinipes (Sewell, 1949)

    KEY TO SPECIES OF ANISOMOLGUS

    ASCETOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Ascetomolgus plicatus Humes & Stock, 1972

    ASPIDOMOLGUS Humes, 1969

  • Aspidomolgus stoichactinus Humes, 1969

    CALONASTES Humes & Goenaga, 1978

  • Calonastes imparipes Humes & Goenaga, 1978

    COLOBOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Colobomolgus bandensis Humes, 1990
  • Colobomolgus cristatus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Colobomolgus dentipes (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
  • Colobomolgus epaxius Humes, 1990
  • Colobomolgus laboutei Humes & Stock, 1973

    KEY TO SPECIES OF COLOBOMOLGUS

    CONTOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Contomolgus lokobeensis Humes & Stock, 1973

    CRITOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1983

    "The genus Critomolgus Humes and Stock, 1983 represents a group of 34 (36?) species of copepods associated with marine invertebrates. Most of these species have been collected in associations with species of the phyla Cnidaria and Echinodermata in several localities in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Gulf of Mexico with three species reported in the Mediterranean Sea" (from Varela et al., 2021)

  • Critomolgus actiniae (Della Valle, 1880)
  • Critomolgus antennulus Humes, 1990
  • Critomolgus anthopleurus Kim I.H., 1996
  • Critomolgus astrophyticus (Humes & Stock, 1973)
  • Critomolgus audens (Humes, 1959)
  • Critomolgus brevicaudatus Kim I.H., 2003
  • Critomolgus brevipes (Shen & Lee, 1966)
  • Critomolgus buddhensis (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
  • Critomolgus bulbipes (Stock & Kleeton, 1963)
  • Critomolgus caelatus (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus cladiellae Humes, 1990
  • Critomolgus cylichnophorus (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus dunnae (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus fishelsoni (Stock, 1967)
  • Critomolgus foxi (Gurney, 1927)
  • Critomolgus gemmatus (Humes, 1964)
  • Critomolgus hispidulus (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus isoawamochi (Ho, 1981)
  • Critomolgus linguifer Kim I.H., 2003
  • Critomolgus magnificus (Humes, 1964)
  • Critomolgus malmizalus Kim I.H., 1996
  • Critomolgus mandoensis Kim I.H., 2003
  • Critomolgus nudus Kim I.H., 2000
  • Critomolgus orectopus Humes, 1990
  • Critomolgus paterellis (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus penicillatus (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus pteropadus (Humes, 1978)
  • Critomolgus ptilosarci (Humes & Stock, 1973)
  • Critomolgus rigidus (Ummerkutty, 1962)
  • Critomolgus scyphulanus (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus titillans (Humes, 1982)
  • Critomolgus trispinosus (Stock, 1959)
  • Critomolgus vicinus Kim I.H., 1996
  • Critomolgus virgulariae (Humes, 1978)
  • Critomolgus walteri Varela et al., 2021 [Mexico]

    KEY TO SPECIES OF CRITOMOLGUS

    DIALLAGOMOLGUS Humes, 1979

  • Diallagomolgus productus Humes, 1979
  • Diallagomolgus vicinus Humes, 1979

    DORIDICOLA Leydig, 1853 (syn. Eolidicola Sars M., 1889; Metaxymolgus Humes & Stock, 1972 )

  • Doridicola aculeatus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Doridicola agilis Leydig, 1853
  • Doridicola antheliae (Humes & Stock, 1973)
  • Doridicola botulosus (Stock & Kleeton, 1963)
  • Doridicola brevifurcatus (Ummerkutty, 1962)
  • Doridicola capnellae Humes, 1990
  • Doridicola chlamydis (Humes & Stock, 1973)
  • Doridicola cincinnatus (Humes, 1975)
  • Doridicola cinctus (Humes & Stock, 1973)
  • Doridicola comai Conradi, Megina & López-González, 2004
  • Doridicola commodus (Humes, 1964)
  • Doridicola comparatus (Humes, 1975)
  • Doridicola confinis (Humes, 1982)
  • Doridicola congoensis (Scott T., 1894)
  • Doridicola connexus Humes, 1986
  • Doridicola cuspis (Humes, 1964)
  • Doridicola echinasteris (Humes, 1975)
  • Doridicola gracilipes (Scott A., 1909)
  • Doridicola helmuti Conradi, Bandera & López-González, 2006
  • Doridicola hetaericus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Doridicola hirsutipes (Scott T., 1893)
  • Doridicola inaequalis (Humes & Ho, 1966)
  • Doridicola indistinctus Ho & Ivanenko, 2013
  • Doridicola inflatiseta (Humes & Stock, 1973)
  • Doridicola larani Brunckhorst, 1985
  • Doridicola longicauda (Claus, 1860)
  • Doridicola lumarius (Humes, 1980)
  • Doridicola micropus (Humes, 1973)
  • Doridicola mimicus (Humes, 1975)
  • Doridicola myorae (Greenwood, 1971)
  • Doridicola parapatulus Kim I.H., 2004
  • Doridicola parvicaudatus Kim I.H., 2003
  • Doridicola pattayensis Kim I.H. & Hong, 2014
  • Doridicola patulus (Humes, 1958)
  • Doridicola pertinax (Humes, 1982)
  • Doridicola petalopus Humes, 1990
  • Doridicola portincola Kim I.H., 2007
  • Doridicola praelongipes (Humes, 1975)
  • Doridicola rostripes Humes, 1990
  • Doridicola rumphellae Humes, 1993
  • Doridicola securiger (Humes, 1964)
  • Doridicola sensilis (Humes, 1964)
  • Doridicola senticauda Humes, 1990
  • Doridicola sepiae (Izawa, 1976)
  • Doridicola similis Ho & Kim I.H., 2001
  • Doridicola simplex (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
  • Doridicola singularipes (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Doridicola spinulifer (Humes & Frost, 1964)
  • Doridicola sunnivae (Humes, 1982)
  • Doridicola turmalis (Humes, 1982)
  • Doridicola venustus (Humes, 1959)
  • Doridicola virgatus Kim I.H., 2007
  • Doridicola vulcanius Humes, 1990

    KEY TO SPECIES OF DORIDICOLA

    EMUNOA Humes, 1996

  • Emunoa protenta Humes, 1996

    INDOMOLGUS Humes & Ho, 1966

  • Indomolgus brevisetosus Humes & Ho, 1966
  • Indomolgus diversus Humes & Ho, 1966
  • Indomolgus humesi Nair & Pillai, 1987
  • Indomolgus mutatus Humes & Ho, 1966

    ISOMOLGUS Dojiri, 1988

  • Isomolgus desmotes Dojiri, 1988

    KOMBIA Humes, 1962

  • Kombia angulata Humes, 1962
  • Kombia avitus Kim I.H., 2007
  • Kombia curvata Nair & Pillai, 1986
  • Kombia imminens Humes, 1979
  • Kombia incrassata Humes, 1984

    LAMBANETES Humes, 1982

  • Lambanetes gemmulatus Humes, 1982
  • Lambanetes mollis Kim I.H. & Hong, 2014
  • Lambanetes stichodactylae Humes, 1982

    LUTUMIDOMUS Kim I.H., 2006

  • Lutumidomus panikkari (Gnanamuthu, 1955)
  • Lutumidomus parvus Kim I.H., 2006
  • Lutumidomus tertius (Kim I.H., 2000)

    MANDOBIUS Humes, 1991

  • Mandobius regalis Humes, 1991

    MECRA Humes, 1980

  • Mecra ellipsaria Humes, 1980

    MERINGOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Meringomolgus devotus Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Meringomolgus facetus Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Meringomolgus hamatus Humes & Stock, 1973

    KEY TO SPECIES OF MERINGOMOLGUS

    MOLUCCOMOLGUS Humes, 1992

  • Moluccomolgus lordus Humes, 1992

    MONOMOLGUS Humes & Frost, 1964

  • Monomolgus baculigerus Humes, 1979
  • Monomolgus psammocorae Humes & Ho, 1967
  • Monomolgus torulus Humes, 1984
  • Monomolgus unihastatus Humes & Frost, 1964

    NOTOXYNUS Humes, 1975

  • Notoxynus crinitus Humes, 1982
  • Notoxynus lokobensis Kim I.H., 2009
  • Notoxynus mundus Humes, 1975
  • Notoxynus tertius Kim, 2000

    NUMBOA Humes, 1997

  • Numboa porosa Humes, 1997

    PACHYSERICOLA Kim I.H., 2003

  • Pachysericola compressus Kim I.H., 2003

    PARADORIDICOLA Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Paradoridicola adelphus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Paradoridicola angularis Humes, 1990
  • Paradoridicola contiguus Humes, 1990
  • Paradoridicola drepanophorus Humes, 1990
  • Paradoridicola glabripes (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Paradoridicola hystricosus Humes, 1990
  • Paradoridicola robustus (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
  • Paradoridicola simulator Humes, 1990
  • Paradoridicola sinulariae (sinalaranius?) Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Paradoridicola spinulatus Humes, 1982
  • Paradoridicola squamiger (Humes & Frost, 1964)
  • Paradoridicola triquetrus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Paradoridicola virgulifer Humes, 1990

    KEY TO SPECIES OF PARADORIDICOLA

    PARAMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Paramolgus abruptus Humes, 1990
  • Paramolgus accinctus Humes, 1980
  • Paramolgus alcyoniicus Humes, 1990
  • Paramolgus ampullaceus Humes, 1992
  • Paramolgus anomalus (Scott A., 1909)
  • Paramolgus antillianus Stock, 1975
  • Paramolgus centor Humes, 1990
  • Paramolgus clavatus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Paramolgus congruus Humes, 1990
  • Paramolgus constrictus (Humes, 1969)
  • Paramolgus dapsilis Humes, 1993
  • Paramolgus delicatulus Humes, 1992
  • Paramolgus ellisellae Humes, 1974
  • Paramolgus eniwetokensis Humes, 1973
  • Paramolgus extendens Humes & Dojiri, 1979
  • Paramolgus galeatus Kim I.H., 2003
  • Paramolgus incidentus Kim I.H., 2005
  • Paramolgus inconstans Humes & Dojiri, 1979
  • Paramolgus insectus (Humes, 1969)
  • Paramolgus litophyticus Humes & Dojiri, 1979
  • Paramolgus modicus Humes, 1990
  • Paramolgus nephthaenus Humes, 1980
  • Paramolgus nudipes Kim I.H., 2006
  • Paramolgus orientalis Choe & Kim I.H., 2010
  • Paramolgus ostentus Humes, 1973
  • Paramolgus pavonae Humes, 1994
  • Paramolgus politus (Humes & Ho, 1967)
  • Paramolgus pollicaris Humes & Dojiri, 1979
  • Paramolgus promiculus Humes, 1980
  • Paramolgus quadrangulus Humes, 1990
  • Paramolgus resectus Humes & Dojiri, 1979
  • Paramolgus simulans (Humes & Ho, 1967)
  • Paramolgus spathophorus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Paramolgus subincisus Humes, 1990
  • Paramolgus timendus Humes, 1990

    KEY TO FEMALES OF THE GENUS PARAMOLGUS

    PARANTHESSIUS Claus, 1889

  • Paranthessius anemoniae Claus, 1889
  • Paranthessius caribaeus
  • Paranthessius columniae Illg, 1949
  • Paranthessius dissidens Humes
  • Paranthessius mesodesmatis Humes, 1967 (?)
  • Paranthessius panopeae Illg, 1949
  • Paranthessius perplexus Illg, 1949 (?)
  • Paranthessius propinquus Nicholls (?) Illg, 1949
  • Paranthessius protothacae Humes, 1967 (?)
  • Paranthessius saxidomae (?)
  • Paranthessius tivelae

    KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS PARANTHESSIUS
    KEY TO THE GENERA OF THE PARANTHESSIUS GROUP


    PAREDROMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Paredromolgus decorus (Humes & Frost, 1964)

    PENNATULICOLA Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Pennatulicola corallophilus Nair B. & Pillai N.K., 1986
  • Pennatulicola piscatorius Itoh & Kim I.H., 2015
  • Pennatulicola pteroidis (Della Valle, 1880)
  • Pennatulicola pterophilus (Stock, 1962)
  • Pennatulicola robustclavus Uyeno, 2015
  • Pennatulicola serratipes (Ummerkutty, 1962)

    PEROSYNA Humes, 1982

  • Perosyna indonesica Humes, 1982

    PIONOMOLGUS Dojiri & Grygier, 1990

  • Pionomolgus gallicolus Dojiri & Grygier, 1990
  • Pionomolgus moluccensis Kim I.H., 2007

    PLESIOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Plesiomolgus conjunctus (Humes & Ho, 1967)
  • Plesiomolgus organicus (Humes & Ho, 1967)

    RAVAHINA Humes & Ho, 1968

  • Ravahina tumida Humes & Ho, 1968

    RHYNCHOMOLGUS Humes & Ho, 1967

  • Rhynchomolgus corallophilus Humes & Ho, 1967

    SOLITARICOLA Stock, 1985

  • Solitaricola bipes Stock, 1985

    SPANIOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Spaniomolgus acutus Conradi, Bandera, Mudrova & Ivanenko, 2018 [Red Sea]
  • Spaniomolgus compositus (Humes & Frost, 1964)
  • Spaniomolgus crassus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Spaniomolgus dentatus Conradi, Bandera, Mudrova & Ivanenko, 2018 [Red Sea]
  • Spaniomolgus geminus (Humes & Ho, 1968)
  • Spaniomolgus globus Conradi, Bandera, Mudrova & Ivanenko, 2018 [Red Sea]
  • Spaniomolgus maculatus Conradi, Bandera, Mudrova & Ivanenko, 2018 [Red Sea]
  • Spaniomolgus stylophorus Conradi, Bandera, Mudrova & Ivanenko, 2018 [Red Sea]

    TELESTACICOLA Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Telestacicola angoti Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Telestacicola claudus (Humes & Stock, 1973)
  • Telestacicola lobophyti Humes, 1990
  • Telestacicola sertus Humes, 1978
  • Telestacicola turgipes Kim I.H. & Chang, 2016
  • Telestacicola xenophiothricis Doignon, Deheyn & Fiers, 2004

    TEMNOMOLGUS Humes & Ho, 1966

  • Temnomolgus eurynotus Humes & Ho, 1966

    VERUTIPES Humes 1982

  • Verutipes laticeps Humes, 1982
  • Verutipes scutatus Kim I.H., 2006

    VISAYASIA Humes, 1992

  • Visayasia lobura Humes, 1992
  • Visayasia subterna Humes, 1992

    WEDANUS Humes, 1978

  • Wedanus formosanus Cheng, Ho & Dai, 2008
  • Wedanus inconstans Humes, 1978

    XENOMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Xenomolgus varius Humes & Stock, 1973

    ZAMOLGUS Humes & Stock, 1972

  • Zamolgus acanthodes Humes & Stock, 1973
  • Zamolgus cavernularius Kim I.H., 2000
  • Zamolgus cracens Humes & Dojiri, 1979
  • Zamolgus tridens Humes & Stock, 1973

    KEY TO FEMALES OF THE GENUS ZAMOLGUS




    MAKROSTROTIDAE Huys, Fatih, Ohtsuka & Llewellyn-Hughes, 2012

    MAKROSTROTOS Ho & Lin, 2006

  • Makrostrotos acuminatus Ho & Lin, 2006
  • Makrostrotos hamus Ho & Lin, 2006




    MESOGLICOLIDAE Zulueta, 1911

    MESOGLICOLA Quidor, 1906

  • Mesoglicola delagei Quidor, 1906




    MICRALLECTIDAE Huys, 2001

    MICRALLECTO Stock, 1971 (syn. Nannallecto Stock, 1973 )

  • Micrallecto fusii (Stock, 1973)
  • Micrallecto uncinata Stock, 1971


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