Nomenclature
original description
Avdeev, V. V. (1975). New representative of the parasitic isopod genus <I>Pleopodias</I> Richardson, 1910 (Cymothoidae). <em>Fisheries, Oceanography, Hydrobiology and Fish Parasitology of the Pacific Ocean.</em> 98: 254-256. [details]
original description
(of Pleopodias superatus Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1986) Williams, E. H.; Bunkley-Williams, L. (1986). The first Anilocra and Pleopodias isopods (Crustacea: Cymothoidae) parasitic on Japanese fishes, with three new species. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 99(4): 647-657. [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Hadfield, K. A.; Smit, N. J. (2017). Revision of the fish parasitic genus <I>Pleopodias</I> Richardson, 1910 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), with the description of a new species and key to the genus. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 667: 21–37., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.667.11414 [details] Available for editors
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type locality E.China Sea [details]