Cymothoa
Encyclopedia
Cymothoa is a genus
of parasitic
isopod
crustacean
s, containing the following species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of parasitic
Parasitism
Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. Traditionally parasite referred to organisms with lifestages that needed more than one host . These are now called macroparasites...
isopod
Isopoda
Isopods are an order of peracarid crustaceans, including familiar animals such as woodlice and pill bugs. The name Isopoda derives from the Greek roots and...
crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
s, containing the following species:
- Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954
- Cymothoa borbonica Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa brasiliensis Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa bychowskyi Avdeev, 1979
- Cymothoa carangii Avdeev, 1979
- Cymothoa carryensis Gourret, 1892
- Cymothoa catarinensis Thatcher, Loyola e Silva, Jost & Souza-Conceiçao, 2003
- Cymothoa cinerea Bal & Joshi, 1959
- Cymothoa curta Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa dufresni Leach, 1818
- Cymothoa elegans Bovallius, 1885
- Cymothoa epimerica Avdeev, 1979
- Cymothoa eremita (Brunnich, 1783)
- Cymothoa excisa Perty, 1833
- Cymothoa exiguaCymothoa exiguaCymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. It tends to be long. This parasite enters through the gills, and then attaches itself at the base of the spotted rose snapper's tongue. It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the...
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884 - Cymothoa eximia Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa frontalis H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
- Cymothoa gadorum Brocchi, 1875
- Cymothoa gerris Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa gibbosa Gourret, 1892
- Cymothoa globosa Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa guadeloupensis Fabricius, 1793
- Cymothoa ianuarii Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa ichtiola (Brünnich, 1764)
- Cymothoa indica Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa liannae Sartor & Pires, 1988
- Cymothoa limbata Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa marginata Bleeker, 1857
- Cymothoa nigropunctata Risso, 1816
- Cymothoa oestrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cymothoa paradoxa Haller, 1880
- Cymothoa parupenei Avdeev, 1979
- Cymothoa plebeia Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa propria Avdeev, 1979
- Cymothoa pulchrum Lanchester, 1902
- Cymothoa recifea Thatcher & Fonseca, 2005
- Cymothoa recta Dana, 1853
- Cymothoa rhina Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa rotunda Avdeev, 1979
- Cymothoa rotundifrons Haller, 1880
- Cymothoa scopulorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cymothoa selari Avdeev, 1978
- Cymothoa slusarskii Rokicki, 1986
- Cymothoa spinipalpa Thatcher, de Arujo, de Lima & Chellapa, 2007
- Cymothoa truncata Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
- Cymothoa vicina Hale, 1926