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

Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cymothoa carryensis Gourret, 1892
Cymothoa curta Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
Cymothoa dufresni Leach, 1818
Cymothoa gibbosa Gourret, 1892
Cymothoa globosa Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
Cymothoa ichtiola (Brünnich, 1764)
Cymothoa nigropunctata Risso, 1816
Cymothoa oestrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cymothoa paradoxa Haller, 1880
Cymothoa scopulorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cymothoa slusarskii Rokicki, 1986

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, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.

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Citation

Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2014). Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118409