Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G., 2019, A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India, Zootaxa 4622 (1), pp. 1-99 : 79

Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954

Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954: 15 .

Type and type locality. Type specimen recorded from the Trivandrum, Kerala Coast, India by Pillai (1954). Whereabouts the type material for these species remains unknown .

Remarks. The original description of Cymothoa asymmetrica Pillai, 1954 was accompanied by brief descriptions without illustrations or figures from the buccal cavity of host Sphyraena jello Cuvier, 1829 Trivandrum , Kerala Coast, India. Pillai (1954) stated that this species have “…poorly developed condition of the antero lateral corners of the first peraeon segment; body is slenderer and widens regularly from the first to the last peraeon segment” this characters also resembles with C. indica ( Martin et al. 2016) . Cymothoa asymmetrica was not reported since its original description by Pillai (1954). Until the specimens can be located and redescribed, C. asymmetrica is regarded as species inquirenda.