WoRMS name details

Mothocya sajori Bruce, 1986

256832  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256832)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Cymothoida (Suborder)
  11. Cymothooidea (Superfamily)
  12. Cymothoidae (Family)
  13. Mothocya (Genus)
  14. Mothocya sajori (Species)
 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bruce, N. L. (1986). Revision of the isopod crustacean genus <i>Mothocya</i> Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 20(5): 1089-1192. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note Japan  
type locality Japan [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Mothocya sajori Bruce, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256832 on 2025-05-07
Date
action
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2023-05-02 12:17:07Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Bruce, N. L. (1986). Revision of the isopod crustacean genus <i>Mothocya</i> Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 20(5): 1089-1192. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Fujita, H.; Aneesh, P.T.; Kawai, K.; Kitamura, S.-I.; Shimomura, M.; Umino, T.; Ohtsuka, S. (2023). Redescription and molecular characterization of <i>Mothocya parvostis</i> Bruce, 1986 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) parasitic on Japanese halfbeak, <i>Hyporhamphus sajori</i> (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Hemiramphidae) with <i>Mothocya sajori</i> Bruce, 1986 placed into synonymy. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5277(2): 259-286. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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type locality Japan [details]
LanguageName 
Japanese サヨリヤドリムシ  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) 
To ITIS

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