MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851

ERMS taxon details

Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851

AphiaID

118416 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118416)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Mothocya epimerica A. Costa in Hope, 1851 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Cymothoidae Leach, 1814

Original name

Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851

Synonymised names

Irona Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Mothocya belonae Bruce, 1986
Species Mothocya epimerica A. Costa in Hope, 1851
Species Mothocya nana (Schioedte & Meinert, 1884)
Species Mothocya taurica (Czerniavsky, 1868)
Species Mothocya contracta A. Costa in Hope, 1851 (uncertain > nomen dubium)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Hope, F.G. (1851). Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di moltri altri del Mediterraneo. Napoli Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini, 48 pp., 2 figs. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3924 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. (Eds) (2024). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118416 on 2024-10-31

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024). European Register of Marine Species. Mothocya A. Costa in Hope, 1851. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118416 on 2024-10-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2007-11-28 15:20:16Z

checked

Schotte, Marilyn

2008-01-17 04:28:47Z

changed

Bruce, Niel L.

2016-04-18 14:12:29Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

2017-06-05 11:55:17Z

changed

Hadfield, Kerry A.

2019-06-25 20:02:28Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-05-02 12:17:07Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-05-02 20:21:38Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Hope, F.G. (1851). Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di moltri altri del Mediterraneo. Napoli Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini, 48 pp., 2 figs. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3924 [details]

original description (of Irona Schioedte & Meinert, 1884) Schioedte, J. C.; Meinert, F. W. (1884). Symbolae ad monographiam cymothoarum crustaceorum isopodum familiae. IV. Cymothoidae. Trib. II. Cymothoinae. Trib. III. Livonecinae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III. 14: 221-454, pls. 6-18. [details]

basis of record Bruce, N. L. (1986) Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes. Journal of Natural History 20: 1089-1192. [details]

additional source Hadfield, K.A., Sikkel, P.C. & Smit, N.J. (2014). New records of fish parasitic isopods of the gill-attaching genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 from the Virgin Islands, Caribbean, with description of a new species. ZooKeys, 439: 109–125. [details]

additional source van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in RoR) [details]

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