WoRMS taxon details
Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851
118416 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118416)
accepted
Genus
Mothocya epimerica A. Costa in Hope, 1851 (type by subsequent designation)
Irona Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (also junior homonym of Irona...)
also junior homonym of Irona Mabille, 1883 [Gastropoda]
- Species Mothocya affinis Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2015
- Species Mothocya andoni van der Wal, Smit, Bruce, Olaosebikan & Hadfield, 2021
- Species Mothocya argenosa Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya arrosor Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya belonae Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya bermudensis Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya bertlucy Hadfield, Sikkel & Smit, 2014
- Species Mothocya bohlkeorum Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1982
- Species Mothocya collettei Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya epimerica A. Costa in Hope, 1851
- Species Mothocya gilli Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya girellae Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya halei Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya kaorui Kawanishi, Miyazaki & Satoh, 2023
- Species Mothocya karobran Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya komatsui Yamauchi, 2009
- Species Mothocya lineata (Miers, 1876)
- Species Mothocya longicopa Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya melanosticta (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
- Species Mothocya nana (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
- Species Mothocya omidaptria Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya panamica Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya parvostis Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya plagulophora (Haller, 1880)
- Species Mothocya powelli van der Wal, Smit, Bruce, Olaosebikan & Hadfield, 2021
- Species Mothocya renardi (Bleeker, 1857)
- Species Mothocya rosea Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya taurica (Czerniavsky, 1868)
- Species Mothocya waminda Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya xenobranchia Bruce, 1986
- Species Mothocya ihi Bruce, 1986 accepted as Mothocya lineata (Miers, 1876) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mothocya katoi Nunomura, 1992 accepted as Ceratothoa guttata (Richardson, 1910) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mothocya sajori Bruce, 1986 accepted as Mothocya parvostis Bruce, 1986 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mothocya toyamaensis Nunomura, 1993 accepted as Ceratothoa toyamaensis (Nunomura, 1993) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Mothocya trillesi (Rokicki, 1986) accepted as Mothocya longicopa Bruce, 1986 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mothocya contracta A. Costa in Hope, 1851 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hope, F.G. (1851). Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di moltri altri del Mediterraneo. [Catalogue of Italian crustaceans and many others from the Mediterranean.]. <em>Napoli Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini, Naples.</em> 48 pp., 2 figs., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3924 [details] 
Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118416 on 2025-05-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Hope, F.G. (1851). Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di moltri altri del Mediterraneo. [Catalogue of Italian crustaceans and many others from the Mediterranean.]. <em>Napoli Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini, Naples.</em> 48 pp., 2 figs., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3924 [details]
original description (of Irona Schioedte & Meinert, 1884) Schioedte, J. C.; Meinert, F. W. (1884). Symbolae ad monographiam cymothoarum crustaceorum isopodum familiae. IV. Cymothoidae. Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III.</em> 14: 221-454, pls. 6-18. [details]
basis of record 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
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original description (of Irona Schioedte & Meinert, 1884) Schioedte, J. C.; Meinert, F. W. (1884). Symbolae ad monographiam cymothoarum crustaceorum isopodum familiae. IV. Cymothoidae. Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III.</em> 14: 221-454, pls. 6-18. [details]
basis of record 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
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additional source
Hadfield, K.A., Sikkel, P.C. & Smit, N.J. (2014). New records of fish parasitic isopods of the gill-attaching genus <i>Mothocya</I> Costa, in Hope, 1851 from the Virgin Islands, Caribbean, with description of a new species. <em>ZooKeys, 439: 109–125.</em> [details]
additional source 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]
additional source 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
