# Cymothoa

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{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}
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| image = Cymothoa exigua - 02.JPG
| image_caption = ''[Cymothoa exigua](/source/Cymothoa_exigua)''
| taxon = Cymothoa
| authority = [Fabricius](/source/Johan_Christian_Fabricius), 1787
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'''''Cymothoa''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [parasitic](/source/parasitism) [isopod](/source/Isopoda) [crustacean](/source/crustacean)s, 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](/source/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](/source/phoresy). 
*''[Cymothoa asymmetrica](/source/Cymothoa_asymmetrica)'' <small>Pillai, 1954</small>
*''[Cymothoa borbonica](/source/Cymothoa_borbonica)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa brasiliensis](/source/Cymothoa_brasiliensis)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa bychowskyi](/source/Cymothoa_bychowskyi)'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small>
*''[Cymothoa carangii](/source/Cymothoa_carangii)'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small>
*''[Cymothoa carryensis](/source/Cymothoa_carryensis)'' <small>Gourret, 1892</small>
*''[Cymothoa catarinensis](/source/Cymothoa_catarinensis)'' <small>Thatcher, Loyola e Silva, Jost & Souza-Conceiçao, 2003</small>
*''[Cymothoa cinerea](/source/Cymothoa_cinerea)'' <small>Bal & Joshi, 1959</small>
*''[Cymothoa curta](/source/Cymothoa_curta)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa dufresni](/source/Cymothoa_dufresni)'' <small>Leach, 1818</small>
*''[Cymothoa elegans](/source/Cymothoa_elegans)'' <small>Bovallius, 1885</small>
*''[Cymothoa epimerica](/source/Cymothoa_epimerica)'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small>
*''[Cymothoa eremita](/source/Cymothoa_eremita)'' <small>(Brunnich, 1783)</small>
*''[Cymothoa excisa](/source/Cymothoa_excisa)'' <small>Perty, 1833</small>
*''[Cymothoa exigua](/source/Cymothoa_exigua)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa eximia](/source/Cymothoa_eximia)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa frontalis](/source/Cymothoa_frontalis)'' <small>H. Milne-Edwards, 1840</small>
*''[Cymothoa gadorum](/source/Cymothoa_gadorum)'' <small>Brocchi, 1875</small>
*''[Cymothoa gerris](/source/Cymothoa_gerris)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa gibbosa](/source/Cymothoa_gibbosa)'' <small>Gourret, 1892</small>
*''[Cymothoa globosa](/source/Cymothoa_globosa)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa guadeloupensis](/source/Cymothoa_guadeloupensis)'' <small>Fabricius, 1793</small>
*''[Cymothoa hermani](/source/Cymothoa_hermani)'' <small>Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2011</small>
*''[Cymothoa ianuarii](/source/Cymothoa_ianuarii)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa ichtiola](/source/Cymothoa_ichtiola)'' <small>(Brünnich, 1764)</small>
*''[Cymothoa indica](/source/Cymothoa_indica)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa liannae](/source/Cymothoa_liannae)'' <small>Sartor & Pires, 1988</small>
*''[Cymothoa limbata](/source/Cymothoa_limbata)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa marginata](/source/Cymothoa_marginata)'' <small>Bleeker, 1857</small>
*''[Cymothoa nigropunctata](/source/Cymothoa_nigropunctata)'' <small>Risso, 1816</small>
*''[Cymothoa oestrum](/source/Cymothoa_oestrum)'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
*''[Cymothoa paradoxa](/source/Cymothoa_paradoxa)'' <small>Haller, 1880</small>
*''[Cymothoa parupenei](/source/Cymothoa_parupenei)'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small>
*''[Cymothoa plebeia](/source/Cymothoa_plebeia)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa propria](/source/Cymothoa_propria)'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small>
*''[Cymothoa pulchrum](/source/Cymothoa_pulchrum)'' <small>Lanchester, 1902</small>
*''[Cymothoa recifea](/source/Cymothoa_recifea)'' <small>Thatcher & Fonseca, 2005</small>
*''[Cymothoa recta](/source/Cymothoa_recta)'' <small>Dana, 1853</small>
*''[Cymothoa rhina](/source/Cymothoa_rhina)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa rotunda](/source/Cymothoa_rotunda)'' <small>Avdeev, 1979</small>
*''[Cymothoa rotundifrons](/source/Cymothoa_rotundifrons)'' <small>Haller, 1880</small>
*''[Cymothoa scopulorum](/source/Cymothoa_scopulorum)'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
*''[Cymothoa selari](/source/Cymothoa_selari)'' <small>Avdeev, 1978</small>
*''[Cymothoa slusarskii](/source/Cymothoa_slusarskii)'' <small>Rokicki, 1986</small>
*''[Cymothoa spinipalpa](/source/Cymothoa_spinipalpa)'' <small>Thatcher, de Arujo, de Lima & Chellapa, 2007</small>
*''[Cymothoa truncata](/source/Cymothoa_truncata)'' <small>Schiödte & Meinert, 1884</small>
*''[Cymothoa vicina](/source/Cymothoa_vicina)'' <small>Hale, 1926</small>

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:Cymothooidea
Category:Isopod genera
Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius

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