Species Cymothoa eremita (Brünnich, 1783)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oniscus eremita Brünnich, T. 1783. Spicilegia Zoologica e Museis Naturae Curiosorum in itineribus apud exteros reportata. fol. 1765–99 pp.
• Cymothoa mathieui Leach, W.E. 1818. Cymothoadées, Cymothoadæ. (Crust.). pp. 337–354 in Cuvier, F.G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles &c. &c. Strassbourg et Paris : Le Normant Vol. 12. [353].
• Cymothoa leschenaultii Leach, 1818.
• Cymothoa edwardsii Bleeker, P. 1857. Recherches sur les Crustacés de l'Inde Archipélagique. II. Sur les isopodes Cymothoadiens de l'Archipel Indien. Acta Soc. Indo-Neerland. Batavia 2: 20-40 [34].
• Cymothoa stromatei Bleeker, P. 1857. Recherches sur les Crustacés de l'Inde Archipélagique. II. Sur les isopodes Cymothoadiens de l'Archipel Indien. Acta Soc. Indo-Neerland. Batavia 2: 20-40 [35].
• Cymothoa limbata Schioedte, J.C. & Meinert, F. 1884. Symbolae ad monographium Cymothoarum Crustaeorum Isopodum familiae IV. Cymothoidae Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 14: 221-454, pls 6-18 [248].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♀, Cape York Peninsula, QLD (as promontorium York Novae-Hollandiae).
• Cymothoa cinerea Bal, D.V. & Joshi, U.N. 1959. Some new isopod parasites on fishes. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 56: 563–569 [567].
• Cymothoa krishnai Jayadev Babu, S. & Sanjeeva Raj, P.J. 1984. Isopod parasites of fish of Pulicat Lake. pp. 818-823 in anon. Proceedings of the Symposium on Coastal Aquaculture Held at Cochin from January 12 to 18, 1980. Part 3: FInfish Culture. Cochin : Marine Biological Society of India. [821] [subjective synonym].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Miers, E.J. 1880. On a collection of Crustacea from the Malaysian region. – Part IV. Penaeidae, Stomatopoda, Isopoda, Suctoria, and Xiphosura. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 5: 457-473 pl. xv [461] (synonymy of C. edwardsii & C. stromatei with C. leschenaultii)
• Hadfield, K.A., Bruce, N.L. & Smit, N.J. 2013. Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea), from the southwestern Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 3640(2): 152–176 [158]
• Martin, M.B., Bruce, N.L., Nowak, B.F. 2016. Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Australia. Zootaxa 4119(1): 1–72 [18] (synonymy of C. limbata)

Generic Combinations

• Cymothoa eremita (Brünnich, 1783).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, mesoparasitic.

Extra Ecological Information

Known from 11 fish host families (AULOPIDAE, CARANGIDAE, HAEMULIDAE, LUTJANIDAE, MUGILIDAE, PSETTODIDAE, SERRANIDAE, SIGANIDAE, SPHYRAENIDAE, STROMATEIDAE, TETRAODONTIDAE). For locality and fish host species details see Hadfield et al. (2013).

General References

Hadfield, K.A., Bruce, N.L. & Smit, N.J. 2013. Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea), from the southwestern Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 3640(2): 152–176

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