{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cymothoa exigua - 02.JPG | image_caption = ''Cymothoa exigua'' | taxon = Cymothoa | authority = Fabricius, 1787 | type_species = | type_species_authority = }}
'''''Cymothoa''''' is a genus of parasitic isopod crustaceans, containing the species listed below.<ref>{{cite web |author=Marilyn Schotte |year=2012 |title=''Cymothoa'' Fabricius, 1787 |editor1=M. Schotte |editor2=C. B. Boyko |editor3=N. L. Bruce |editor4=G. C. B. Poore |editor5=S. Taiti |editor6=G. D. F. Wilson |work=World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118409 |accessdate=October 6, 2012}}</ref> Not all ''Cymothoa'' species are considered parasitic. Some climb onto fish in an act known as phoresy. *''Cymothoa asymmetrica'' <small>Pillai, 1954</small> *''Cymothoa borbonica'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa brasiliensis'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa bychowskyi'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small> *''Cymothoa carangii'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small> *''Cymothoa carryensis'' <small>Gourret, 1892</small> *''Cymothoa catarinensis'' <small>Thatcher, Loyola e Silva, Jost & Souza-Conceiçao, 2003</small> *''Cymothoa cinerea'' <small>Bal & Joshi, 1959</small> *''Cymothoa curta'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa dufresni'' <small>Leach, 1818</small> *''Cymothoa elegans'' <small>Bovallius, 1885</small> *''Cymothoa epimerica'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small> *''Cymothoa eremita'' <small>(Brunnich, 1783)</small> *''Cymothoa excisa'' <small>Perty, 1833</small> *''Cymothoa exigua'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa eximia'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa frontalis'' <small>H. Milne-Edwards, 1840</small> *''Cymothoa gadorum'' <small>Brocchi, 1875</small> *''Cymothoa gerris'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa gibbosa'' <small>Gourret, 1892</small> *''Cymothoa globosa'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa guadeloupensis'' <small>Fabricius, 1793</small> *''Cymothoa hermani'' <small>Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2011</small> *''Cymothoa ianuarii'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa ichtiola'' <small>(Brünnich, 1764)</small> *''Cymothoa indica'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa liannae'' <small>Sartor & Pires, 1988</small> *''Cymothoa limbata'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa marginata'' <small>Bleeker, 1857</small> *''Cymothoa nigropunctata'' <small>Risso, 1816</small> *''Cymothoa oestrum'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> *''Cymothoa paradoxa'' <small>Haller, 1880</small> *''Cymothoa parupenei'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small> *''Cymothoa plebeia'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa propria'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small> *''Cymothoa pulchrum'' <small>Lanchester, 1902</small> *''Cymothoa recifea'' <small>Thatcher & Fonseca, 2005</small> *''Cymothoa recta'' <small>Dana, 1853</small> *''Cymothoa rhina'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa rotunda'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small> *''Cymothoa rotundifrons'' <small>Haller, 1880</small> *''Cymothoa scopulorum'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> *''Cymothoa selari'' <small>Avdeev, 1978</small> *''Cymothoa slusarskii'' <small>Rokicki, 1986</small> *''Cymothoa spinipalpa'' <small>Thatcher, de Arujo, de Lima & Chellapa, 2007</small> *''Cymothoa truncata'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small> *''Cymothoa vicina'' <small>Hale, 1926</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Wikispecies-inline}}
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Category:Cymothooidea Category:Isopod genera Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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