original description
Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] 
original description
(of Livonectus Gaillat Airoldi, 1940) Gaillat Airoldi, A. (1940). Di un nuovo genere di cymothoide parassita di <i>Pomatomus telescopus</i> (<i>Livonectus pomatomi</i>). <em>Bollettino degli Istituti di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata della R. Universita di Genova, 2nd serie.</em> 20(122): 1-3, pls. 1-2. [details] Available for editors 
basis of record
NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]
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]. [details]
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
redescription
Bruce, N. L. (1990) The genera <i>Catoessa</i>, <i>Elthusa</i>, <i>Enispa</i>, <i>Ichthyoxenus</i>, <i>Idusa</i>, <i>Livoneca</i>, and <i>Norileca</i> n. gen. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes, with descriptions of eastern Australian species. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 247-300. [details] Available for editors 
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Anonymous. (1996) Opinion 1849. Livoneca Leach, 1818 (Crustacea, Isopoda): the original spelling confirmed as correct, and the spelling Lironeca rejected. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 53(3), 210–212 [details]