Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa
Author
Hadfield, Kerry A.
Author
Bruce, Niel L.
Author
Smit, Nico J.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3640
2
152
176
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.2
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Cymothoa hermani
Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2011
Cymothoa hermani
Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2011: 57
–68.
Remarks.
Cymothoa hermani
can be identified by the unique bulbous ornamentation on pereonite 1, anterolateral angles on pereonite 1 rounded and produced past frontal margin of cephalon, long and slender dactyli and the numerous lobes on pleopods 4 and
5 in
the ovigerous female.
The only other
Cymothoa
species known from the region,
C. eremita
, differs from
C. hermani
by the lack of the characteristic bulbous ornamentation on pereonite 1 that is present in
C. hermani
.
Cymothoa eremita
also has a dorsally visible and wider cephalon with the anterolateral margin of pereonite 1 not produced past the cephalon; irregular posterior margins of the pleonites with pleonite 5 appearing to have very distinctly produced sub-medial points; and more acutely produced lateral pereonite margins than in
C. hermani
.
Hosts.
Only known from
Leptoscarus vaigiensis
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
(see Hadfield
et al
. 2011).
Distribution.
Known from the
type
location, off Miwi Island,
Zanzibar
,
Tanzania
(Hadfield
et al
. 2011).