A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Cymothoidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa catarinensis Thatcher, Loyola e Silva, Jost & Souza-Conceiçao, 2003 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa elegans Bovallius, 1885 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa epimerica Avdeev, 1979 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa eremita (Brünnich, 1783) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa eximia Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa frontalis H. Milne Edwards, 1840 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa gadorum Brocchi, 1875 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa gibbosa Gourret, 1891 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa globosa Schiödte & Meinert, 1884 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa ianuarii Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa nigropunctata Risso, 1816 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa oestrum (Linnaeus, 1758) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa parupenei Avdeev, 1979 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa plebeia Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa propria Avdeev, 1979 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa recifea Thatcher & Fonseca, 2005 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa recta Dana, 1853 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa scopulorum (Linnaeus, 1758) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa selari Avdeev, 1978 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa slusarskii Rokicki, 1986 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa spinipalpa Thatcher, de Arujo, de Lima & Chellapa, 2007 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cymothoa truncata Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elthusa californica (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elthusa emarginata (Bleeker, 1857) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elthusa methepia (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elthusa neocytta (Avdeev, 1975) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elthusa sigani Bruce, 1990 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elthusa tropicalis (Menzies & Kruczynski, 1983) | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elthusa winstoni Hadfield, Tuttle & Smit, 2017 | CymothoidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.