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

Ceratothoa Dana, 1852

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ceratothoa capri (Trilles, 1964)
Ceratothoa collaris Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
Ceratothoa gobii Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
Ceratothoa italica Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
Ceratothoa oestroides (Risso, 1816)
Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena Koelbel, 1878
Ceratothoa parallela (Otto, 1828)
Ceratothoa steindachneri Koelbel, 1879

Literature

additional source	ITIS database
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	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
redescription	Bruce, N. L. and Bowman, T. E. (1989) Species of the parasitic isopod genera Ceratothoa and Glossobius (Crustacea: Cymothoidae) from the mouths of flying fishes and halfbeaks (Beloniformes). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 489: 1-28.

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Citation

Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2014). Ceratothoa Dana, 1852. 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:118407