Marine Species Traits - Cymothooidea Leach, 1818

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Cymothooidea Leach, 1818

AphiaID

292946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:292946)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Superfamily

Parent

Cymothoida

Original name

Cymothoidae Leach, 1814

Synonymised names

Cretitanaoidea Schram, Sieg & Malzahn, 1983 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Family Aegidae White, 1850
Family Anuropidae Stebbing, 1893
Family Barybrotidae Hansen, 1890
Family Cirolanidae Dana, 1852
Family Corallanidae Hansen, 1890
Family Cymothoidae Leach, 1814
Family Gnathiidae Leach, 1814
Family Lantoceramiidae Wilson & Morel, 2022 †
Family Protognathiidae Wägele & Brandt, 1988
Family Tridentellidae Bruce, 1984
Family Urdidae Kunth, 1870 †
Family Cymothooidea incertae sedis † (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Cymothoidae Leach, 1814) 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.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Cymothooidea Leach, 1818. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=292946 on 2026-08-18

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Cymothooidea Leach, 1818. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=292946 on 2026-08-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-31 17:05:46Z

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Haskins, Tina

2017-11-09 08:51:34Z

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Horton, Tammy

2019-06-02 00:23:54Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2024-03-01 14:51:29Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2025-01-31 02:33:16Z

changed

Poore, Gary C.B.

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original description (of Cymothoidae Leach, 1814) 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]

original description (of Cretitanaoidea Schram, Sieg & Malzahn, 1983 †) Schram, F.R., Sieg, J., & Malzahn, E. (1986). Fossil Tanaidacea. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 21 (8): 127-144., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4287171 [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 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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