Biology:Ceratothoa

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Short description: A parasitic marine isopod

Ceratothoa
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Family: Cymothoidae
Genus: Ceratothoa
Dana, 1852
Species

26 species (see text)

Synonyms[1]
  • Codonophilus Haswell, 1881
  • Cteatessa Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
  • Meinertia Stebbing, 1893
  • Rhexana Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
  • Rhexanella Stebbing, 1911

Ceratothoa is a genus of isopod ectoparasites of teleost fish,[2][3] first described by James Dwight Dana in 1852.[1] Infection by Ceratothoa can cause anaemia, lesions, growth retardation, emaciation, and mortality in their fish hosts.[3]

Species

Currently, 26 valid species in this genus are recognized:[1]

C. carinata and C. oxyrrhynchaena were redescribed in 2013,[5] and C. angulata, C. capri, C. carinata, C. collaris, C. gilberti, C. gobii, C. guttata, C. italica, C. oestroides, and C. verrucosa in 2016.[6]

A number of taxa are species inquirendae:[1]

  • Ceratothoa contracta (Miers, 1880)
  • Ceratothoa deplanata Bovallius, 1885
  • Ceratothoa gaudichaudii (H. Milne Edwards, 1840) (previously known as Ceratothoa rapax Heller, 1865)[7]
  • Ceratothoa novaezelandiae Filhol, 1885
  • Ceratothoa transversa (Richardson, 1901)
  • Ceratothoa triglae Gourret, 1891

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Ceratothoa Dana, 1852". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. 2021. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118407. 
  2. Horton, Tammy (2000). "Ceratothoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Ceratothoa". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 80 (6): 1041–1052. doi:10.1017/S0025315400003106. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Horton, Tammy; Diamant, Arik; Galil, Bella (2004). "Ceratothoa steindachneri (Isopoda, Cymothoidae): An unusual record from the Mediterranean". Crustaceana 77 (9): 1145–1148. doi:10.1163/1568540042900231. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Hadfield, Kerry; Bruce, Niel; Smit, Nico (2014). "Review of the fish parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of two new species". ZooKeys (400): 1–42. doi:10.3897/zookeys.400.6878. PMID 24843254. 
  5. Martin, Melissa B.; Bruce, Niel L.; Nowak, Barbara F. (2013). "Redescription of Ceratothoa carinata (Bianconi, 1869) and Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena Koelbel, 1878 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), buccal-attaching fish parasites new to Australia". Zootaxa 3683 (4): 395–410. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3683.4.4. PMID 25250460. 
  6. Hadfield, Kerry A.; Bruce, Niel L.; Smit, Nico J. (2016). "Redescription of poorly known species of Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), based on original type material". ZooKeys (592): 39–91. doi:10.3897/zookeys.592.8098. PMID 27408544. 
  7. Brusca, Richard C. (1981). "A monograph on the Isopoda Cymothoidae (Crustacea) of the eastern Pacific". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 73 (2): 117–199. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1981.tb01592.x. 

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