original description
(of Cymothoa impressa Say, 1818) Say, T., 1818. An account of the Crustacea of the United States, part 7.— Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1: 374-401. [details]
original description
(of Ceratothoa exocoeti Cunningham, 1871) Cunningham, R. O. (1871). Notes on the reptiles, Amphibia, fishes, Mollusca, and Crustacea obtained during the voyage of H.M.S. Nassau in the years 1866-1869. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 27: 465-502, pls. 58-59., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=rgxQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA484 [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]
From editor or global species database
type locality New Jersey, USA [details]