WoRMS taxon details
Ichthyoxenos Herklots, 1870
248845 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248845)
accepted
Genus
Ichthyoxenos jellinghausii Herklots, 1870 (type by monotypy)
Ichthyoxenus Herklots, 1870 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
- Species Ichthyoxenos amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1858)
- Species Ichthyoxenos asymmetrica Ahmed, 1970
- Species Ichthyoxenos expansus Van Name, 1920
- Species Ichthyoxenos formosanus Harada, 1930
- Species Ichthyoxenos fushanensis Tsai & Dai, 1999
- Species Ichthyoxenos japonensis Richardson, 1913
- Species Ichthyoxenos jellinghausii Herklots, 1870
- Species Ichthyoxenos micronyx (Miers, 1880)
- Species Ichthyoxenos minabensis (Shiino, 1951)
- Species Ichthyoxenos puhi (Bowman, 1962)
- Species Ichthyoxenos sinensis Shen, 1936
- Species Ichthyoxenos hsiakowensis "S. Yu, 1935" Mitra & Chowdhury, 2024 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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] 
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. Ichthyoxenos Herklots, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248845 on 2026-04-10
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
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] 
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality