Redescription and further report of two buccal attaching fish parasitic cymothoids, Ceratothoa carinata (Bianconi, 1869) and Cymothoa bychowskyi Avdeev, 1979 (Crustacea: Isopoda) with a new record from the southern India Ocean Author Aneesh, Panakkool Thamban Author Helna, Ameri Kottarathil Author Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju text Journal of Natural History 2022 2022-08-12 56 17 - 20 1063 1089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2099318 journal article 128208 10.1080/00222933.2022.2099318 92fe0125-ba3d-4dda-afbe-e2fcb8769961 1464-5262 7012342

Table 1. An updated checklist of buccal-attaching fish parasitic cymothoids from Indian waters (*unconfirmed record).

Buccal attaching cymothoids
Genus	Species	Host fish	Distribution in India	References
Catoessa	Catoessa boscii	Carangoides malabaricus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) [Carangidae]; Stolephorus	South-east coast of India;	Pillai 1954; Trilles
Schiöedte and	(Bleeker, 1857)	indicus (van Hasselt, 1823) [Engraulidae]; * Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier,	Malabar Coast, India	et al. 2012;
Meinert, 1884		1816) [Scombridae]		Aneesh et al. 2016
	Catoessa gruneri	Eubleekeria splendens (Cuvier, 1829); Leiognathus daura (Cuvier, 1829); Leiognathus	South-east coast of India;	Aneesh et al. 2016
	Bowman and Tareen,	fasciatus (Lacepède, 1803) [Leiognathidae]; Ilisha melastoma (Bloch and	Malabar Coast, India
	1983	Schneider, 1801) [Pristigasteridae]; Terapon puta Cuvier, 1829
		[Terapontidae]
Ceratothoa Dana,	Ceratothoa angulata	Hyporhamphus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1847) [Hemiramphidae]	South-east coast of India	Rameshkumar et al.
1852	(Richardson, 1910)			2013
	Ceratothoa retusa	Hemiramphus far (Forsskål, 1775) [Hemiramphidae]	Kerala coast	Pillai 1954; Bruce
	(Schiöedte and Meinert,			and Bowman
	1883)			1989
	Ceratothoa carinata	Decapterus macrosoma (Bleeker, 1851) [Carangidae]	Malabar coast, India	Present study
(Bianconi, 1869)
	Ceratothoa trigonocephala	Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson, 1846) [Exocoetidae]	Kerala coast*	Pillai 1954
(Leach, 1818)
Cymothoa	Cymothoa asymmetrica	Sphyraena jello Cuvier, 1829 [Sphyraenidae]	Trivandrum, Kerala coast, India	Pillai 1954
Fabricius,	Pillai, 1954
1793	Cymothoa bychowskyi	Fistularia petimba Lacepède, 1803 [Fistulariidae]	Lakshadweep south-west coast;	Rameshkumar et al.
	Avdeev, 1979			2013; present
				study
	Cymothoa eremita	Parastromateus Niger (Bloch, 1795) [Carangidae]; Peprilus paru (Linnaeus, 1758)	South-west coast; Kerala coast;	Brünnich 1783; Pillai
	(Brünnich, 1783)	[Stromateoidei]; * Crenimugil seheli (Fabricius, 1775) [Mugilidae]; Chirocentrus	Malabar Coast	1954; Aneesh
		dorab (Forsskål, 1775) [Chirocentridae]		2014
	Cymothoa frontalis Milne	Strongylura strongylura (van Hasselt, 1823) [Belonidae]	Malabar Coast, India	Rameshkumar et al.
	Edwards, 1840			2013; Aneesh
				et al. 2015
	Cymothoa indica Schiöedte	Strongylura strongylura [Belonidae];	South-west coast; Malabar Coast,	Aneesh 2014;
	and Meinert, 1884	Etroplus suratensis (Bloch, 1790) [Cichlidae]	India	Ravichandran
				et al. 2019
	Cymothoa parupenei	Upeneus sulphurous Cuvier, 1829 [Mullidae]; Stolephorus commersonnii Lacepède,	Kerala coast; South-west coast	Pillai 1954;
	Avdeev, 1979	1803 [Engraulidae]		Rameshkumar
				et al. 2013
Genus	Species	Host fish	Distribution in India	References
Glossobius	Glossobius auritus	Cypselurus oligolepis (Mitchill, 1815) [Exocoetidae]; Hyporhamphus dussumieri	South-west coast; Malabar Coast, Aneesh et al. 2017
Schiöedte and	Bovallius, 1885	(Valenciennes, 1847) [Hemiramphidae]	India
Meinert, 1883	Glossobius hemiramphi	Hemiramphus lutkei Valenciennes, 1847 [Hemiramphidae]	Malabar Coast, India	Aneesh et al. 2017
Williams and Williams,
	1985
	Glossobius impressus	Hirundichthys coromandelensis (Hornell, 1923) [Exocoetidae]	South-west coast	Ravichandran et al.
	(Say, 1818)			2019
Lobothorax	Lobothorax nicosmiti	Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier, 1832) [Gempylidae]	Munambam, Kerala, south-west	Aneesh et al. 2021a
Bleeker, 1857	Aneesh, Bruce and		coast
Kumar, 2021
	Lobothorax typus	Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758	Parangipattai, south-west coast;	Rameshkumar et al.
	Bleeker, 1857		Munambam, Kerala, south-	2013; Aneesh
			west coast, India	et al. 2021a