Nomenclature
original description
Perty, M. (1833). Delectus Animalium Articulatorum, quae in itinere per Brasiliam Annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis Augustissimi peracto collegerunt Dr. J. B. de Spix et Dr. C. F. Ph. de Martius. Fasc. 3. Monachii: Impensis Editoris. Pp. 125-244, pls. 25-40. [details] 
original description
(of Cymothoa parasita de Saussure, 1857) de Saussure, H. (1857). Diagnoses de quelques Crustacés nouveaux des Antilles et du Mexique. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée.</em> série 2, 9: 304–308. [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]
Other
additional source
Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
From editor or global species database
type locality Brazil [details]