Cymothoidae

Cymothoidae
Cymothoidae
Anilocra capensis on Lithognathus aureti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Cymothoida
Family: Cymothoidae
Leach, 1815 [1]
Genera

c. 40; see text

Cymothoidae is a family of isopods. Several species are parasites, usually of fish. These include the bizarre "tongue-biter", Cymothoa exigua.

Genera

Around forty genera are recognised [1]

  • Aegathoa Dana, 1853
  • Agarna Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Amblycephalon Pillai, 1954
  • Anilocra Leach, 1818
  • Artystone Schioedte, 1866
  • Asotana Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  • Braga Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  • Catoessa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Ceratothoa Dana, 1852
  • Cinusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Creniola Bruce, 1987
  • Cterissa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Cymothoa Fabricius, 1787
  • Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Emetha Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
  • Glossobius Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
  • Ichthyoxenus Herklots, 1870
  • Idusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Isonebula Taberner, 1977
  • Joryma Bowman & Tareen, 1983
  • Kuna Williams & Williams, 1986
  • Lathraena Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  • Livoneca Leach, 1818
  • Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857
  • Mothocya Costa in Hope, 1851
  • Nerocila Leach, 1818
  • Norileca Bruce, 1990
  • Olencira Leach, 1818
  • Ourozeuktes H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
  • Paracymothoa Lemos de Castro, 1955
  • Philostomella Szidat & Schubart, 1960
  • Pleopodias Richardson, 1910
  • Plotor Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  • Pseudoirona Pillai, 1964
  • Renocila Miers, 1880
  • Rhiothra Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Riggia Szidat, 1948
  • Ryukyua Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1994
  • Smenispa Özdikmen, 2009 [2]
  • Telotha Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
  • Tetragonocephalon Avdeev, 1978

References

  1. ^ a b "Cymothoidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=92437. 
  2. ^ Hüseyin Özdikmen (2009). "A new name, Smenispa for the preoccupied isopod genus Enispa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae)" (PDF). Mun. Ent. Zool. 4 (2): 611–612. http://www.munisentzool.org/yayin/vol4/issue2/611-612.pdf. 


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