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 Nerocila

Nerocila bivittata (Risso, 1816)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nerocila*	Leach, 1818	accepted genus name
*Ichthyophilus*	Latreille, 1829	synonym

Literature

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].
additional source	Holthuis, L.B. (1950). Isopodes et Tanaidacés marins de la Belgique; remarques sur quelques espèces de la zone méridionale de la Mer du Nord [Marine Isopoda and Tanaidacea from Belgium: remarks on some species from the southern North Sea]. Med. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet. 26(53): 1-19

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. Nerocila bivittata (Risso, 1816). 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:118907