Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Cymothoida > Superfamily Cymothooidea > Family Cymothoidae

Ceratothoa Dana, 1852

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Meinertia*	Stebbing, 1893	synonym

Children

Ceratothoa capri (Trilles, 1964)
Ceratothoa collaris Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
Ceratothoa deplanata Bovallius, 1885
Ceratothoa gobii Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
Ceratothoa italica Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
Ceratothoa oestroides (Risso, 1827)
Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena Koelbel, 1879
Ceratothoa parallela (Otto, 1828)
Ceratothoa steindachneri Koelbel, 1879

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: tongue-biter sources: Hadfield, K. A.; Bruce, N. L.; Smit, N. J. (2014). Review of the fish parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of two new species. ZooKeys. 400: 1-42.

Japanese: ヒゲブトウオノエ属

Literature

original description	Dana, J. D. (1852). On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series. 14(41): 297-316.
additional source	Hadfield, K. A.; Bruce, N. L.; Smit, N. J. (2016). Redescription of poorly known species of Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), based on original type material. Zookeys. 592: 39-61.
additional source	Hadfield, K. A.; Smit, N. J. (2020). Review of the global distribution and hosts of the economically important fish parasitic isopod genus Ceratothoa (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), including the description of Ceratothoa springbok n. sp. from South Africa. International Journal for Parasitology. 50(10-11): 899-919.
redescription	Bruce, N. L. and Bowman, T. E. (1989) Species of the parasitic isopod genera Ceratothoa and Glossobius (Crustacea: Cymothoidae) from the mouths of flying fishes and halfbeaks (Beloniformes). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 489: 1-28.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ceratothoa Dana, 1852. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118407