Reighardia sternae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Ichthyostraca |
Order: | Reighardiida |
Family: | Reighardiidae |
Genus: | Reighardia |
Species: | R. sternae
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Binomial name | |
Reighardia sternae (
Diesing, 1864)
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Reighardia sternae, also known as the larid pentastome, [1] is a small internal parasitic crustacean. It is the only Pentastomida species to use gulls and terns as hosts, living in the body cavity and air sacs. [2]