WoRMS taxon details
Ceratothoa parallela (Otto, 1828)
118872 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118872)
accepted
Species
Ceratothoa directa (Otto, 1821) · unaccepted > nomen oblitum
Cymothoa directa Otto, 1821 · unaccepted > nomen oblitum
Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828) Otto, A.W. (1828). Beschreibung einiger neuen, in den Jahren 1818 und 1819 im Mittelländischen Meere gefundener Crustaceen. [Description of some new Crustacea found in the Mediterranean Sea in 1818 and 1819.]. <em>Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum (Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher), Breslau & Bonn.</em> 14: 331-354, pls. 20-22. [details] 
Note Mediterranean
type locality Mediterranean [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ceratothoa parallela (Otto, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118872 on 2025-08-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828) Otto, A.W. (1828). Beschreibung einiger neuen, in den Jahren 1818 und 1819 im Mittelländischen Meere gefundener Crustaceen. [Description of some new Crustacea found in the Mediterranean Sea in 1818 and 1819.]. <em>Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum (Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher), Breslau & Bonn.</em> 14: 331-354, pls. 20-22. [details]
original description (of Cymothoa directa Otto, 1821) Otto, A.G. (1821). Conspectus animalium quorundam maritimorum nondum editorum pars prior quam patri dilectissimo ad cineres usque venerando Bernhardo Crristiano Otto pro celebrando die laetissimo XI. [A survey of certain marine animals, not yet published, before the ashes of my beloved father, Bernhard Cristianus Otto, for celebrating the happiest day of the 11th.]. <em>Maji MDCCCXXI quo ante decem lustra honores doctorales acceperat. Typis Universitatis, Vratislavia.</em> 20 pp., available online at http://opac.nebis.ch/F/?local_base=NEBIS&CON_LNG=GER&func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=006471451 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Cymothoa directa Otto, 1821) Otto, A.G. (1821). Conspectus animalium quorundam maritimorum nondum editorum pars prior quam patri dilectissimo ad cineres usque venerando Bernhardo Crristiano Otto pro celebrando die laetissimo XI. [A survey of certain marine animals, not yet published, before the ashes of my beloved father, Bernhard Cristianus Otto, for celebrating the happiest day of the 11th.]. <em>Maji MDCCCXXI quo ante decem lustra honores doctorales acceperat. Typis Universitatis, Vratislavia.</em> 20 pp., available online at http://opac.nebis.ch/F/?local_base=NEBIS&CON_LNG=GER&func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=006471451 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Horton, T. 2000. Ceratothoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Ceratothoa. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 80, 1041-1052. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
type locality Mediterranean [details]
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ceratothoa parallela)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ceratothoa parallela)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Cymothoa parallela Otto, 1828)
To ITIS
