Metis holothuriae
Taxonomy:
Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Protostomia; Ecdysozoa; Panarthropoda; Arthropoda; Mandibulata; Pancrustacea; Crustacea; Multicrustacea; Hexanauplia; Copepoda; Neocopepoda; Podoplea; Harpacticoida; Metidae; Metis; holothuriae
General info
Metis holothuriae (Edwards, 1891). The current records of Metis holothuriae suggest a cosmopolitan distribution, but the large amount of variation that has been reported for this species appears to reinforce the existence of a species complex (Mielke 1989; Wells 2007; Huys 2016). It is common in association to phytal and is reported to be an epibiont of the Caribbean Manatee (Violante-Huerta and E. Suárez-Morales 2016), maybe fortuitously occurring on this species (Huys 2016).