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Issue: Vol. 3973 No. 2: 17 Jun. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.2.8
Page range: 337–350
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 3

Review of the buccal-attaching fish parasite genus Glossobius Schioedte & Meinert, 1883 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae)

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 7250.
Museum of Tropical Queensland, Queensland Museum, 70–102 Flinders Street, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 4810.
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 7250.
Cymothoidae Glossobius southern Africa Australia fish parasite Beloniformes

Abstract

Two species of Glossobius Schioedte & Meinert, 1883 are known from Australia: Glossobius anctus Bruce & Bowman, 1989 and Glossobius impressus (Say, 1818), the latter recorded here for the first time from Australia and southern Africa. Glossobius ogasawarensis Nunomura, 1994 is here placed in synonymy with Glossobius auritus Bovallius, 1885; whereas Glossobius crassa (Dana, 1853) is removed from synonymy with G. auritus and placed into nomen dubium. Glossobius arimae Nunomura, 2001 is transferred to the genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852. A key to the species of Glossobius is presented.