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Excorallanidae

Excorallanidae

[ek‚skȯr·ə′lan·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
A family of free-living and parasitic isopod crustaceans in the suborder Flabellifera which have mandibles and first maxillae modified as hooklike piercing organs.
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References in periodicals archive
(Crustacea: Isopoda: Excorallanidae) from the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico, with observations on adult characters and sexual dimorphism in related species of Excorallana Stebbing, 1904.
Host-parasite interaction between crustaceans of six fish species from the Brazilian Amazon/Interacao hospedeiro-parasite entre crustaceos de seis especies de peixes da Amazonia brasileira
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