Cymothoa

Cymothoa is a genus of parasitic isopod crustaceans, containing the species listed below. Not all Cymothoa species are considered parasitic. Some climb onto fish in an act known as phoresy. 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 exigua 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 hermani Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2011 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

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