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. [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]
From editor or global species database
type locality Indonesia [details]