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 > Genus Ceratothoa

Ceratothoa steindachneri Koelbel, 1879

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ceratothoa*	Dana, 1852	accepted genus name
*Meinertia*	Stebbing, 1893	synonym

Literature

original description	Koelbel, K. (1879). Über einige neue Cymothoiden. Sitzungberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Nautwissenschaftliche Classe. 78(2): 401-416, pls. 1-2.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321
additional source	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
redescription	Horton, T. 2000. Ceratothoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Ceratothoa. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 80, 1041-1052.
identification resource	Horton, T. 2000. Ceratothoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Ceratothoa. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 80, 1041-1052.

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 steindachneri Koelbel, 1879. 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:118874