WoRMS taxon details

Riggia acuticaudata Thatcher, Lopes & Froehlich, 2002

262873  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:262873)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Thatcher, V. E., Lopes, L. P. C., and Froehlich, O. (2002) Riggia acuticaudata sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from the body cavity of a freshwater fish of Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 19(Suppl. 2): 195-201. [details] 
Note Brazil  
From editor or global species database
type locality Brazil [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. Riggia acuticaudata Thatcher, Lopes & Froehlich, 2002. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=262873 on 2025-10-11
Date
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created

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Nomenclature

original description Thatcher, V. E., Lopes, L. P. C., and Froehlich, O. (2002) Riggia acuticaudata sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from the body cavity of a freshwater fish of Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 19(Suppl. 2): 195-201. [details] 

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] 

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

From editor or global species database
ecology Host is Ancistrus, catfish [details]

type locality Brazil [details]
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