WoRMS taxon details

Anilocra Leach, 1818

146493 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146493)

  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. Anilocra (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Anilocra cuvieri Leach, 1818 accepted as Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
Cymothoidae Leach, 1814
Anilacra Leach, 1818 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
Canolira Leach, 1818 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Colombia [non Rang, 1835] · unaccepted (Name is a genus of mollusc; used...)  
Name is a genus of mollusc; used in an isopod combination in ERMS in error.
Epichthys Herklots, 1870 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Anilocra abudefdufi Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  2. Species Anilocra acanthuri Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  3. Species Anilocra acuminata Haller, 1880
  4. Species Anilocra acuta Richardson, 1910
  5. Species Anilocra alloceraea Koelbel, 1879
  6. Species Anilocra amboinensis Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  7. Species Anilocra angeladaviesae Welicky & Smit, 2019
  8. Species Anilocra ankistra Bruce, 1987
  9. Species Anilocra apogonae Bruce, 1987
  10. Species Anilocra atlantica Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  11. Species Anilocra australis Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  12. Species Anilocra boucheti Uyeno & Tosuji, 2023
  13. Species Anilocra brillae Welicky, Hadfield, Sikkel & Smit, 2017
  14. Species Anilocra bunkleywilliamsae Welicky & Smit, 2019
  15. Species Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818
  16. Species Anilocra caudata Bovallius, 1887
  17. Species Anilocra cavicauda Richardson, 1910
  18. Species Anilocra chaetodontis Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  19. Species Anilocra chromis Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  20. Species Anilocra clupei Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1986
  21. Species Anilocra coxalis Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  22. Species Anilocra dimidiata Bleeker, 1857
  23. Species Anilocra elviae Winfield, Alvarez & Ortiz, 2002
  24. Species Anilocra frontalis H. Milne Edwards, 1840
  25. Species Anilocra gigantea (Herklots, 1870)
  26. Species Anilocra grandmaae Aneesh, Hadfield, Smit & Kumar, 2021
  27. Species Anilocra guinensis Bovallius, 1887
  28. Species Anilocra hadfieldae Welicky & Smit, 2019
  29. Species Anilocra haemuli Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  30. Species Anilocra harazakii Uyeno & Tosuji, 2023
  31. Species Anilocra hedenborgi Bovallius, 1887
  32. Species Anilocra holacanthi Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  33. Species Anilocra holocentri Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  34. Species Anilocra huacho Rokicki, 1984
  35. Species Anilocra ianhudsoni Welicky & Smit, 2019
  36. Species Anilocra jovanasi Welicky & Smit, 2019
  37. Species Anilocra koolanae Bruce, 1987
  38. Species Anilocra laevis Miers, 1878
  39. Species Anilocra leptosoma Bleeker, 1857
  40. Species Anilocra longicauda Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  41. Species Anilocra marginata (Bleeker, 1857)
  42. Species Anilocra meridionalis Searle, 1914
  43. Species Anilocra monoma Bowman & Tareen, 1983
  44. Species Anilocra montti Thatcher & Blumenfeldt, 2001
  45. Species Anilocra morsicata Bruce, 1987
  46. Species Anilocra myripristis Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  47. Species Anilocra nemipteri Bruce, 1987
  48. Species Anilocra occidentalis Richardson, 1899
  49. Species Anilocra partiti Bunkley-Williams & Williams, 1981
  50. Species Anilocra paulsikkeli Welicky & Smit, 2019
  51. Species Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758)
  52. Species Anilocra pilchardi Bariche & Trilles, 2006
  53. Species Anilocra plebeia Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
  54. Species Anilocra pomacentri Bruce, 1987
  55. Species Anilocra prionuri Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1986
  56. Species Anilocra recta Nierstrasz, 1915
  57. Species Anilocra rhodotaenia Bleeker, 1857
  58. Species Anilocra rissoniana (Leach, 1818)
  59. Species Anilocra soelae Bruce, 1987
  60. Species Anilocra tropica Avdeev, 1977
  61. Species Anilocra laticauda H. Milne Edwards, 1840 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
  62. Species Anilocra cuvieri Leach, 1818 accepted as Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  63. Species Anilocra mediterranea Leach, 1818 accepted as Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  64. Species Anilocra trichiura Miers, 1878 accepted as Nerocila trichiura (Miers, 1878) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] OpenAccess publication
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Anilocra Leach, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146493 on 2026-08-21
Date
action
by
2005-01-25 08:49:32Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z
checked
Schotte, Marilyn
2008-02-14 05:55:02Z
changed
Bruce, Niel L.
2019-05-21 08:22:23Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.
2023-03-28 02:19:15Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.
2025-03-27 15:11:49Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Epichthys Herklots, 1870) Herklots, J. (1870). Deux nouveaux genres de crustacés vivant en parasites sur des poissons, <i>Epichthyes</i> et <i>Ichthyoxenos</i>. <em>Archives Néerlandaise Sciences Exactes et Naturelles.</em> 5: 120-137, pl. 5. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Anilacra Leach, 1818) Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Canolira Leach, 1818) Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] OpenAccess publication

Taxonomy

redescription Bruce, N. L. (1987) Australian <i>Pleopodias</i> Richardson, 1910, and <i>Anilocra</i> Leach, 1818 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39: 85-130., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.166 [details] 

Other

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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