Name - Cymothoidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:4052 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Cymothoidae Leach 1818

• Cymothoidae (Brusca 1981)

• Cymothoidae Leach 1814

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Functional and sex-specific dynamics of ectoparasite size evolution in marine isopod-fish interactions: Harrison's rule and increasing variance.
• Norileca aff. triangulata (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a branchial cavity parasite of the African sailfin flyingfish, Parexocoetus mento (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae), from southern Japan, with a new Japanese record of the isopod genus.
• New host findings of two parasitic isopods (Flabellifera: Cymothoidae) found on some fish caught in the Dardanelles Strait (canakkale, Turkey).
• Low diversity, high dominance, and high host prevalence of parasitic isopods of the family Cymothoidae in Chilika lagoon, India: a comparative study between a semi-enclosed ecosystem and its adjoining open region.
• Description of Sandythoa gen. nov., a fish parasitic branchial cymothoid (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from the Indian Ocean, with five species including one new species.

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