Species Cymothoa indica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cymothoa indica Schioedte, J.C. & Meinert, F. 1884. Symbolae ad monographium Cymothoarum Crustaeorum Isopodum familiae IV. Cymothoidae Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 14: 221-454, pls 6-18 [250].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Indian Ocean and Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

India.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast, NW coast
  • Queensland
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Attaching externally and in buccal cavity.

 

General References

Hale, H.M. 1926. Review of Australian isopods of the cymothoid group. Pt II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 50: 201-234, pls 26 & 27 (Australian record, redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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