A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India Author Ravichandran, S. Author Vigneshwaran, P. Author Rameshkumar, G. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-06-21 4622 1 1 99 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4622.1.1 6c263a25-844c-46f3-8954-6fd01361de19 1175-5326 3379899 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4537BB46-452F-4E0C-A444-4AA5E12A64E7 Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954 Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954: 15 . Type and type locality. Type specimen recorded from the Trivandrum, Kerala Coast, India by Pillai (1954) . Whereabouts the type material for these species remains unknown . Remarks. The original description of Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954 was accompanied by brief descriptions without illustrations or figures from the buccal cavity of host Sphyraena jello Cuvier, 1829 Trivandrum , Kerala Coast, India . Pillai (1954) stated that this species have “…poorly developed condition of the antero lateral corners of the first peraeon segment; body is slenderer and widens regularly from the first to the last peraeon segment” this characters also resembles with C. indica ( Martin et al. 2016 ) . Cymothoa asymmetrica was not reported since its original description by Pillai (1954) . Until the specimens can be located and redescribed, C. asymmetrica is regarded as species inquirenda.