Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901

Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Valiallah & Al-Kandari, Manal Abdulrahman, 2023, Three new species of temporary fish parasite, Gnathiid Isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoida) from Kuwait, Zootaxa 5383 (1), pp. 24-38 : 26

Genus Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901 , restricted synonymy.

Cohen & Poore 1994: 310; Svavarsson 2002: 151.

Type species. Anceus stygius G. O. Sars, 1877 (original designation).

Diagnosis. The most recent diagnosis of the genus is that of Cohen and Poore (1994).

Remarks. Cohen & Poore (1994) provided diagnoses of this genus, and later Svavarsson (2002). According to these authors’ generic diagnosis, pylopod has two or three articles. Whereas detailed studies of pylopod with a higher magnification microscope revealed a tiny knob at the distal end of the third article of the pylopod in this new species (4-articulated). However, this has no taxonomic significance because the genus holds species with variable numbers of articles in the pylopod.