Genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852

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Genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852

Ceratothoa Dana, J.D. 1852. On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. American Journal of Science and Arts 2 14(41): 297-316 [303].
Type species (included species):
Cymothoa gaudichaudii Milne Edwards, 1840; Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828
Codonophilus Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some new Australian marine Isopoda – Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5: 470-481, pls 16-19 [471].
Type species:
Codonophilus argus Haswell, 1881 by monotypy.
Meinertia Stebbing, T.R.R. 1893. A History of Crustacea. Recent Malacostraca. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. xvii 466 pp. [354] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Ceratothoa Dana, 1852].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Bowman, T.E. 1978. Nomenclatural problems in the cymothoid isopod genera Ceratothoa, Codonophilus, Glossobius and Meinertia — their solution by applying the Law of Priority. Crustaceana 34: 217-219 [217] (lists included species and clears confusion between generic names)
Kussakin, O.G. 1979. Marine and brackish-water Crustacea (Isopoda) of cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere Suborder Flabellifera. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 122: 1-472 [in Russian] [287] (invalid type species selection of Ceratothoa linearis Dana, 1852 (= Cymothoa impressa Say, 1818), not one of the included species)
Bruce, N.L. & 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 [2] (discusses included species but defers selection of type species)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: G. Aust. Bight, Gulf of Carp., NW coast
- Northern Territory
- Queensland: Gulf of Carpentaria
- South Australia
- Western Australia

Distribution References

Brusca, R.C. 1981. A monograph on the Isopoda Cymothoidae (Crustacea) of the eastern Pacific. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 73: 117-199

General References

Martin, M.B., Bruce, N.L. & Novak, B.F. 2015. Review of the fish-parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Australia, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 3963(3): 251–294

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	CYMOTHOIDAE Leach, 1814	15-Jun-2015	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Aug-2022		29-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		06-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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