''Cymothoa'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
parasitic
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The ent ...
isopod
Isopoda is an Order (biology), order of crustaceans. Members of this group are called isopods and include both Aquatic animal, aquatic species and Terrestrial animal, terrestrial species such as woodlice. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons ...
crustacean
Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...
s, containing the species listed below.
Not all ''Cymothoa'' species are considered parasitic. Some climb onto fish in an act known as
phoresy
Phoresis or phoresy is a temporary commensalistic relationship when an organism (a phoront or phoretic) attaches itself to a host organism solely for travel. It has been seen in ticks and mites since the 18th century, and in fossils 320 ...
.
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Cymothoa asymmetrica''
Pillai, 1954
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Cymothoa borbonica''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa brasiliensis''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa bychowskyi''
Avdeev, 1979
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Cymothoa carangii''
Avdeev, 1979
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Cymothoa carryensis''
Gourret, 1892
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Cymothoa catarinensis''
Thatcher, Loyola e Silva, Jost & Souza-Conceiçao, 2003
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Cymothoa cinerea''
Bal & Joshi, 1959
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Cymothoa curta''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa dufresni''
Leach, 1818
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Cymothoa elegans''
Bovallius, 1885
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Cymothoa epimerica''
Avdeev, 1979
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Cymothoa eremita''
(Brunnich, 1783)
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Cymothoa excisa''
Perty, 1833
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Cymothoa exigua
''Cymothoa'' is a genus of parasitic isopod
Isopoda is an Order (biology), order of crustaceans. Members of this group are called isopods and include both Aquatic animal, aquatic species and Terrestrial animal, terrestrial species such as ...
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Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa eximia''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa frontalis''
H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
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Cymothoa gadorum''
Brocchi, 1875
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Cymothoa gerris''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa gibbosa''
Gourret, 1892
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Cymothoa globosa''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa guadeloupensis''
Fabricius, 1793
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Cymothoa hermani''
Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2011
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Cymothoa ianuarii''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa ichtiola''
(Brünnich, 1764)
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Cymothoa indica''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa liannae''
Sartor & Pires, 1988
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Cymothoa limbata''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa marginata''
Bleeker, 1857
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Cymothoa nigropunctata''
Risso, 1816
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Cymothoa oestrum''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
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Cymothoa paradoxa''
Haller, 1880
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Cymothoa parupenei''
Avdeev, 1979
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Cymothoa plebeia''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa propria''
Avdeev, 1979
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Cymothoa pulchrum''
Lanchester, 1902
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Cymothoa recifea''
Thatcher & Fonseca, 2005
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Cymothoa recta''
Dana, 1853
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Cymothoa rhina''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa rotunda''
Avdeev, 1979
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Cymothoa rotundifrons''
Haller, 1880
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Cymothoa scopulorum''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
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Cymothoa selari''
Avdeev, 1978
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Cymothoa slusarskii''
Rokicki, 1986
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Cymothoa spinipalpa''
Thatcher, de Arujo, de Lima & Chellapa, 2007
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Cymothoa truncata''
Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
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Cymothoa vicina''
Hale, 1926
References
External links
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Cymothoida
Isopod genera
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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