Anoplodelphys Lafargue and Laubier, 1978

Boxshall, Geoff A. & Marchenkov, Andrey, 2007, A revision of the Brementia - group of genera (Copepoda: Notodelphyidae), with descriptions of a new genus and four new species, Zootaxa 1459, pp. 37-68 : 40

Genus Anoplodelphys Lafargue and Laubier, 1978

The two new species described below were all collected from didemnid ascidian hosts from around the coast of the African continent. Both are strongly modified, exhibiting numerous limb losses. Placing such secondarily simplified parasites in a genus can sometimes be problematic since independent reductions and losses in different lineages can result in convergence on highly reduced morphologies. The new species are placed in the genus Anoplodelphys , which was erected by Lafargue and Laubier (1978a) to accommodate three species of highly transformed notodelphyid copepods found in colonial ascidian hosts belonging to the genus Didemnum . This placement is supported by the phylogenetic analysis given below (following the descriptions).