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

Cymothoidae Leach, 1814

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Anilocra Leach, 1818
Ceratothoa Dana, 1852
Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793
Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Emetha Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
Glossobius Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
Idusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Livoneca Leach, 1818
Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851
Nerocila Leach, 1818
Olencira Leach, 1818
Ourozeuktes H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Smenispa Özdikmen, 2009

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: fish doctors

Japanese: ウオノエ科

Literature

original description	Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].
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	Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics. 17: 893-923.

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. Cymothoidae Leach, 1814. 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:118274