Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Cymothoida > Superfamily Cymothooidea

Cymothoidae Leach, 1818

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Anilocra Leach, 1818
Ceratothoa Dana, 1852
Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793
Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Emetha Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
Glossobius Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
Idusa Schiödte & Meinert, 1884
Livoneca Leach, 1818
Mothocya Hope, 1851
Nerocila Leach, 1818
Olencira Leach, 1818
Ourozeuktes H. Milne Edwards, 1840

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: fish doctors; fish doctors; tongue biters; tongue biters

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321
additional source	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.
additional source	Brandt, A. and Poore, G.C.B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 893-923.

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Citation

Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2014). Cymothoidae Leach, 1818. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118274