WoRMS taxon details
Cymothoa borbonica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
256745 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256745)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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] 
Note Reunion Is.
From editor or global species database
type locality Reunion Is. [details]
distribution Durban, South Africa to Mozambique (Kensley 1978).
distribution Durban, South Africa to Mozambique (Kensley 1978). [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Cymothoa borbonica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256745 on 2025-05-05
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Hadfield, K. A.; Bruce, N. L.; Smit, N. J. (2013). Review of the fish-parasitic genus <i>Cymothoa</i> Fabricius, 1783 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea) from the south-western Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3640: 152-176. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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