Anilocra physodes on a black seabream Spondyliosoma cantharus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Malacostraca
Superorder:
Peracarida
Order:
Isopoda
Superfamily:
Cymothooidea
Family:
Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 [1]
Genera
c. 40; see text
The Cymothoidae are a family of isopods in the suborder Cymothoida found in both marine and freshwater environments. Cymoithoids are ectoparasites, usually of fish, and they include the bizarre "tongue-biter" (Cymothoa exigua), which attaches to a fish's tongue, causing it to atrophy, and replaces the tongue with its own body.[2]Ceratothoa oestroides is one of the most devastating ectoparasites in Mediterranean aquaculture. Around 40 genera and more than 380 species of cymothoid are recognised.[3] Species of the Cymothoidae are generally found in warmer waters and rarely in the cool
and cold climates.[4]
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^R. C. Brusca; M. R. Gilligan (1983). "Tongue replacement in a marine fish (Lutjanus guttatus) by a parasitic isopod (Crustacea: Isopoda)". Copeia. 1983 (3): 813–816. doi:10.2307/1444352. JSTOR 1444352.
^Srour, Marc (2012-07-13). "Tongue Biters and Deep Sea Giants: The Cymothoida (Crustacea: Isopoda)". Teaching Biology. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
^Brusca, Richard C. (1981). "A monograph on the Isopoda Cymothoidae (Crustacea) of the eastern Pacific". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 73 (2): 117–199. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1981.tb01592.x.
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exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae. It enters fish through the gills. The female attaches to the tongue...
type species, A. branchiatus. Beddard placed Anuropus in the family Cymothoidae, but in 1893, Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing wrote it "may have greater...
September 2021. Horton, Tammy (2000). "Ceratothoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean...
Wildlife. p. 17. Horton, Tammy (2000). "Ceratorhoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north east Atlantic and Mediterranean...
attaching parasite Glossobius parexocoetii, an isopod in the family Cymothoidae. P. brachypterus has also been seen hosting various other species of...
unequal distribution along different geographical areas The life cycle of Cymothoidae, which are protandric hermaphrodites, encompasses mating of adult male...
Sri Lanka is an island close to the southern end of India with a tropical environment. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions...
et al. “Parasitic Isopod Cymothoa Eremita (Brünnich 1783) (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) Affects the Growth of Black Pomfret Parastromateus Niger (Bloch 1795)...
Elthusa is a genus of isopods in the family Cymothoidae, with 40 described species. The following species are recognised in the genus Elthusa: Elthusa...
Elthusa californica is a species of isopod in the family Cymothoidae of the order Isopoda. E. californica is a saltwater parasitic isopod. Like many species...
it is common for other parasitic isopods. J. P. Trilles (1979). "Les Cymothoidae (Isopoda, Flabellifera; parasites des poissons) du Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke...
Irish Academy. 101B (3): 251–253. Ramdane, Z. & J. Trilles (2008). "Cymothoidae and Aegidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) from Algeria". Acta Parasitologica....
Anilocra capensis is a species of parasitic isopod in the family Cymothoidae. It is endemic to southern Africa. The species preferentially attaches itself...
(2014-01-01). "Redescription of Ichthyoxenus puhi (Bowman, 1962) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), parasite of the moray eel Gymnothorax griseus (Lacépède, 1803) from...
Anilocra pomacentri is a species of marine isopod in the family Cymothoidae. It is found off the coast of eastern Australia and is an external parasite...
tb04838.x. Ramdane, Z.; Bensouilah, M.A. & Trilles, J.P. (2007). "The Cymothoidae (Crustacea, Isopoda), parasites on marine fishes, from Algerian fauna"...
needed] It is parasitized by Anphiira xinguensis, an isopode of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite is only known from Ossubtus xinguense where it lives in...
type of isopod, with Münster suggesting it to be a member of the family Cymothoidae based on its short, curved legs pressing against its body. As more remains...
FishBase. August 2014 version. IUCN Red List WoRMS Prevalence of Nerocila depressa (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) on Sardinella albella from a Thai estuary v t e...
parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species"....
"First record of the Indo-Pacific Cymothoa indica (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a Lessepsian species in the Mediterranean Sea". Acta Parasitologica...
Jean-Paul Trilles; Daniel Golani (1997). "Livoneca sp. (Flabellifera: Cymothoidae), an isopod parasite in the oral and branchial cavities of the Red Sea...
(1995). "The Life-Cycle and Biology of Anilocra pomacentri (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), an Ectoparasitic Isopod of the Coral-Reef Fish, Chromis nitida (Perciformes...
53-57. Trilles, J.-P. & Justine, J.-L. 2004: Une nouvelle espèce de Cymothoidae et trois Aegidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) récoltés sur des poissons de mer...
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