Ceratothoa Dana, 1852

Aneesh, Panakkool Thamban, Helna, Ameri Kottarathil & Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju, 2022, Redescription and further report of two buccal attaching fish parasitic cymothoids, Ceratothoa carinata (Bianconi, 1869) and Cymothoa bychowskyi Avdeev, 1979 (Crustacea: Isopoda) with a new record from the southern India Ocean, Journal of Natural History 56 (17 - 20), pp. 1063-1089 : 1064-1065

Genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852

Ceratothoa Dana, 1852: 303 ; 1853: 752. – Miers 1876: 104–105. – Haswell 1882: 282. – Schioedte and Meinert 1883: 322–323. – Richardson 1905: 233–234. – Bowman 1978: 217–218. – Brusca 1981: 177–178. – Bruce and Bowman 1989: 1–2. – Horton 2000: 1041. – Martin et al. 2013: 396; 2015 a: 253–254. – Hadfield et al. 2014a: 3–4; 2014b: 449–450; 2016: 41–42. – Martin et al. 2015: 253–254. – Hadfield and Smit 2020: 3–4.

Codonophilus Haswell, 1881: 471 . – 1882: 283. – Hale 1926: 201, 223.

Rhexana Schiöedte and Meinert, 1883: 289–290 .

Cteatessa Schiöedte and Meinert, 1883: 296–297 .

Meinertia Stebbing, 1893: 354 ; 1900: 642, 1910: 103. – Richardson 1905: 236–237. Menzies 1962: 116. – Schultz 1969: 156.

Rhexanella Stebbing, 1911: 179 .

Not Ceratothoa . – Dana 1853: 747. – Richardson 1905: 236. – Schultz 1969: 155. – Kussakin, 1979: 287 [= Glossobius Schiöedte and Meinert, 1883 ].

Type species

Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828 (by subsequent designation, see Martin et al. 2015 a).