Species list, Checklist of Suborder Cymothoida for Cape Town (Western Cape)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Suborder Cymothoida Wägele, 1989
and region Cape Town (Western Cape)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	55 75 94	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	54 74 92	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Peracarida Calman, 1904	33 49 64	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Isopoda Latreille, 1817 And Woodlice, Freshwater Isopods, Indet. Woodlouse, Isopod	17 28 41	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Cymothoida Wägele, 1989	5 6 6	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cape Town
5 Families width 6 Species

Leptanthuridae Poore, 2001		1	Species	Taxom
Capitoniscidae Boyko & Will..., 2023		1	Species	Taxom
Cymothoidae Leach, 1818	Fish Doctors	2	Species	Taxom
Cirolanidae Dana, 1852	Cave Isopods	1	Species	Taxom
Gnathiidae Leach, 1814		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape Town
6 Genera with 6 Species

Accalathura Barnard, 1990		1	Species	Taxom
Capitoniscus Bourdon, 1972		1	Species	Taxom
Ceratothoa Dana, 1818	tongue-biter	1	Species	Taxom
Cirolana Leach, 1914		1	Species	Taxom
Gnathia Leach, 1994		1	Species	Taxom
Nerocila Leach, 1987		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape Town
6 Species

Accalathura avena Poore & Lew Ton, 1990
Capitoniscus cumacei Bourdon, 1972
Ceratothoa banksii (Leach, 1818)	⇒ Ceratothoa imbricata Fabricius, 1775
Cirolana undulata Barnard, 1914
Gnathia camponotus Cohen & Poore, 1994
Nerocila lomatia Bruce, 1987

Subnodes of Cymothoida with occurrences in Cape Town

Superfamily	Anthuroidea Leach, 1814	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Cirolanoidea Dana, 1852	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Cryptoniscoidea Kossmann, 1880	3 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Cymothoida at artfakta.se
Cymothoida at biodiversity.org.au
Cymothoida at marinespecies.org