Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954

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 : 79

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.5698853

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E129637E-FFD4-A40D-FF47-FB81FD8BF9D8

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Plazi

scientific name

Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954
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Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954 View in CoL

Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954: 15 View in CoL .

Type and type locality. Type specimen recorded from the Trivandrum, Kerala Coast, India by Pillai (1954). Whereabouts the type material for these species remains unknown .

Remarks. The original description of Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954 was accompanied by brief descriptions without illustrations or figures from the buccal cavity of host Sphyraena jello Cuvier, 1829 Trivandrum , Kerala Coast, India. Pillai (1954) stated that this species have “…poorly developed condition of the antero lateral corners of the first peraeon segment; body is slenderer and widens regularly from the first to the last peraeon segment” this characters also resembles with C. indica ( Martin et al. 2016) . Cymothoa asymmetrica was not reported since its original description by Pillai (1954). Until the specimens can be located and redescribed, C. asymmetrica is regarded as species inquirenda.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Cymothoidae

Genus

Cymothoa

Loc

Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954

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

Cymothoa asymmetrica

Pillai, N. K. 1954: 15
1954
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