African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Cymothoidae Leach, 1814

AphiaID

118274 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118274)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Type taxon

Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (type by original designation)

Parent

Cymothooidea Leach, 1818

Original name

Cymothoidae Leach, 1814

Direct children (16)

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Genus Anilocra Leach, 1818
Genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852
Genus Cinusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793
Genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Genus Emetha Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
Genus Ichthyoxenos Herklots, 1870
Genus Idusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Genus Livoneca Leach, 1818
Genus Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851
Genus Nerocila Leach, 1818
Genus Pleopodias Richardson, 1910
Genus Renocila Miers, 1880
Genus Rhiothra Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Genus Irona Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 accepted as Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, also junior homonym of Irona Mabille, 1883 [Gastropoda])
Genus Lironeca Leach, 1818 accepted as Livoneca Leach, 1818 (unaccepted > unjustified emendation)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

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]. :383-437., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640
page(s): 433 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Cymothoidae Leach, 1814. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118274 on 2026-06-21

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cymothoidae Leach, 1814. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118274 on 2026-06-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2007-11-27 17:31:00Z

checked

Schotte, Marilyn

2008-01-31 17:05:46Z

changed

Haskins, Tina

2008-05-22 03:03:42Z

changed

Bruce, Niel L.

2017-06-05 11:55:17Z

changed

Hadfield, Kerry A.

2022-11-30 21:40:13Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2024-03-01 14:51:29Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2024-03-04 13:33:16Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2025-01-31 02:33:16Z

changed

Poore, Gary C.B.

2025-01-31 21:55:22Z

changed

Poore, Gary C.B.

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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]. :383-437., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640
page(s): 433 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. Neotropical Helminthology. 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors

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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is02032 [details] Available for editors

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Cymothoidae, Fig.1