Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G., 2019, A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India, Zootaxa 4622 (1), pp. 1-99 : 34

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4622.1.1

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4537BB46-452F-4E0C-A444-4AA5E12A64E7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8397534

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E129637E-FFBB-A462-FF47-FB3EFEB7F8CC

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Plazi

scientific name

Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857
status

 

Genus Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857 View in CoL View at ENA

Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857: 38 View in CoL .— Yu & Bruce, 2006: 641–648.

Saophra Schiöedte & Meinert, 1883: 282 View in CoL .

Type species. Lobothorax typus Bleeker, 1857 ; by monotypy.

Diagnosis. A detailed diagnosis was given by Yu & Bruce (2006).

Remarks. Lobothorax can be recognized by the weakly vaulted body; anterior margin of cephalon with distinct rostrum; anterolateral margins of pereonite 1 extending beyond rostrum, with prominent lobes. Coxae all shorter than pereonites. Pleonite 1 markedly narrower than pleonite 2. Pleopods all lamellar, pleopods 1 and 2 exopods each with proximolateral lamella; without pockets or folds; pleopods 3–5 with weakly developed pockets or ridges.

Other similar Buccal-attaching genera differ from Lobothorax in the following characteristics: Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 has pereonite 1 anterolateral margins projecting forward; anterior margin of pereonite 1 indented ( Bruce & Bowman 1989); Cinusa Schiöedte & Meinert, 1884 : pereonites 3 and 4 widest anteriorly; antenna slender ( Hadfield et al. 2010); brood pouch arising from coxae 2–5 ( Hadfield 2012); Glossobius Schiöedte & Meinert, 1883 : pereonite 1 anterolateral margins projecting laterally, with slight recess, anterior margin straight or convex ( Martin et al. 2015b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Cymothoidae

Loc

Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G. 2019
2019
Loc

Saophra Schiöedte & Meinert, 1883: 282

Schioedte, J. C. & Meinert, F. 1883: 282
1883
Loc

Lobothorax

Bleeker, P. 1857: 38
1857
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