WoRMS name details
original description
(of Lironeca enigmatica Fryer, 1968) Fryer, G. (1968). A new parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae from clupeid fishes of Lake Tanganyika — a further Lake Tanganyika enigma. <em>Journal of Zoology, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 156(1): 35-43. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment This species is based on males only, and as such the identity in relation to congeners remains uncertain. Pleopod morphology shows that the species does not belong to Livoneca. [details]
Type locality Lake Tanganyika (no other information given). [details]
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