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Corallovexia dorsospinosa

Presence

Recorded on Curaçao
Presence status Indigenous (1) - Curaçao
Distribution description Associated with the Cnidarian host Montastraea cavernosa (Linnaeus, 1767).

Publications

  • Korzhavina, O.A., Hoeksema, B.W. & Ivanenko, V.N. 2019. A review of Caribbean Copepoda associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, echinoderms and sponges. Contributions to Zoology 88: 297-349. [link]
  • Stock, J.H 1975. Corallovexiidae, a new family of transformed copepods endoparasitic in reef corals. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 47: 1-45.