recognized: Ceratothoa africanae Hadfield, Bruce & Smit, 2014 Ceratothoa angulata (Richardson, 1910) Ceratothoa arimae (Nunomura, 2001) Ceratothoa banksii...

Ceratothoa oestroides is a crustacean isopod, obligate ectoparasite of marine fish that dwells in the buccal cavity. It is the causative agent of various...

Ceratothoa steindachneri is an ectoparasite known as a tongue biter. It parasitises fish by attaching to the tongue, causing atrophy. It then replaces...

isopods known to parasitize fish in this way include C. borbonica and Ceratothoa imbricata. Different cymothoid genera are adapted to specific areas of...

on fish. An example is the monogenean Cyclocotyla bellones, found on Ceratothoa parallela, a cymothoid isopod parasite of the sparid fish Boops boops...

tongue, causing it to atrophy, and replaces the tongue with its own body. Ceratothoa oestroides is one of the most devastating ectoparasites in Mediterranean...

notorious for being a hyperparasite. It dwells on the isopod parasite Ceratothoa parallela (among others of the same genus), which itself feeds on the...

Acanthobothrium coronatum, the trypanosome Trypanosoma scyllii, the isopod Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena, and the copepod Lernaeopoda galei. The netted dog whelk...

most important means by which the bacteria spreads. The parasitic isopod Ceratothoa gaudichaudii is a host for P. salmonis and may represent an important...

moth Onchidella steindachneri, a sea slug Abralia steindachneri, a squid Ceratothoa steindachneri, a fish parasite Category:Taxa named by Franz Steindachner...

Bleeker, 1857  Kensley, 1978 Cinusa tetrodontis Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 Ceratothoa imbricata (Fabricius, 1775) Cymothoa borbonica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884...