Ceratothoa
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A parasitic marine isopod
Ceratothoa | |
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Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Isopoda |
Family: | Cymothoidae |
Genus: | Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 |
Species | |
26 species (see text) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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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
[edit ]Currently, 26 valid species in this genus are recognized:[1]
- Ceratothoa africanae Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2014[4]
- Ceratothoa angulata (Richardson, 1910)
- Ceratothoa arimae (Nunomura, 2001)
- Ceratothoa banksii (Leach, 1818)
- Ceratothoa barracuda Martin, Bruce & Nowak, 2015
- Ceratothoa capri (Trilles, 1964)
- Ceratothoa carinata (Bianconi, 1869)
- Ceratothoa collaris Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
- Ceratothoa famosa Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2014[4]
- Ceratothoa gilberti (Richardson, 1904)
- Ceratothoa globulus Martin, Bruce & Nowak, 2015
- Ceratothoa gobii Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
- Ceratothoa guttata (Richardson, 1910)
- Ceratothoa imbricata (Fabricius, 1775)
- Ceratothoa italica Schiödte & Meinert, 1883
- Ceratothoa marisrubri Trilles, Colorni & Golani, 1999
- Ceratothoa oestroides (Risso, 1826)
- Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena Koelbel, 1878
- Ceratothoa parallela (Otto, 1828)
- Ceratothoa retusa (Schioedte & Meinert, 1883)
- Ceratothoa springbok Hadfield & Smit, 2020
- Ceratothoa steindachneri Koelbel, 1879
- Ceratothoa toyamaensis (Nunomura, 1993)
- Ceratothoa trigonocephala (Leach, 1818)
- Ceratothoa usacarangis (Avdeev, 1979)
- Ceratothoa verrucosa (Schioedte & Meinert, 1883)
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
[edit ]- ^ a b c d Schotte M, Boyko CB, Bruce NL, Poore GC, Taiti S, Wilson GD, eds. (2021). "Ceratothoa Dana, 1852". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans Database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2000JMBUK..80.1041H. doi:10.1017/S0025315400003106. S2CID 83606126.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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 . PMC 4023241 . PMID 24843254. S2CID 6067384.
- ^ 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年4月4日. PMID 25250460.
- ^ 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 . PMC 4926636 . PMID 27408544.
- ^ 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.