Species Nerocila phaiopleura Bleeker, 1857
- Nerocila phaiopleura Bleeker, P. 1857. Recherches sur les Crustacés de l'Inde Archipélagique. II. Sur les isopodes Cymothoadiens de l'Archipel Indien. Acta Soc. Indo-Neerland. Batavia 2: 20-40 [25].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH, Batavia Bay, Indonesia.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-West Pacific Ocean.
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: NE coast, SW coast
- Queensland
- Western Australia
Ecological Descriptors
Ectoparasitic, estuary, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Parasitic on engraulid, mugilid and plotosid fishes.
General References
Bowman, T.E. & Tareen, I.V. 1983. Cymothoidae from the fishes of Kuwait (Arabian Gulf) (Crustacea: Isopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 382: 1-30 (non-Australian distribution, hosts)
Bruce, N.L. 1987. Australian species of Nerocila Leach, 1818, and Creniola n. gen. (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39: 355-412 (synonymy, description, figures, distribution)
Bruce, N.L. & Harrison-Nelson, E.B. 1988. New records of fish parasitic marine isopod crustaceans (Cymothoidae, subfamily Anilocrinae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 585-602 (distribution)
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