page_title: Tegastidae
hierarchical_section_title: Tegastidae
caption_attribution_description: English: A typical red bug infestation on an Acropora. In the top-right corner is a close-up of the red bugs with their distinctive red pigmentation. Photographed by JSteljes in June 2006 and released to the public domain.
context_page_description: Tegastidae is a family of copepods, which are characterised by having laterally compressed bodies, a claw-like mandible in the nauplius stage, and by a modified male genital complex. 85 species have been described in 6 genera. Two species of Smacigastes are found at hydrothermal vents, while the remaining species are found in shallow water, associated with algae, bryozoans and cnidarians, such as corals.
  The six genera are:
  Arawella Cottarelli & Baldari, 1987
  Feregastes Fiers, 1986
  Parategastes Sars, 1904
  Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004
  Syngastes Monard, 1924
  Tegastes Norman, 1903
context_section_description: Tegastidae is a family of copepods, which are characterised by having laterally compressed bodies (resembling that of an amphipod), a claw-like mandible in the nauplius stage, and by a modified male genital complex. 85 species have been described in 6 genera. Two species of Smacigastes are found at hydrothermal vents, while the remaining species are found in shallow water, associated with algae, bryozoans and cnidarians, such as corals.
  The six genera are:
  Arawella Cottarelli & Baldari, 1987
  Feregastes Fiers, 1986
  Parategastes Sars, 1904
  Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004
  Syngastes Monard, 1924
  Tegastes Norman, 1903
caption: An infestation of Tegastes on an acroporid
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