Gnathia Leach, 1814

Farquharson, Charon, Smit, Nico J., Grutter, Alexandra S. & Davies, Angela J., 2012, Gnathia masca sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Zootaxa 3233, pp. 22-36 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.212948
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6172457
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scientific name	Gnathia Leach, 1814
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Type species. Gnathia termitoides Leach, 1814 ; see Cohen and Poore (1994)

Remarks. Gnathia is the largest genus in the family with more than 110 species. It has a global distribution and extremely common in coral-reef habitats. Gnathia juveniles have been reported from teleost and elasmobranch hosts. The generic revision of Cohen and Poore (1994) is still accepted.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Isopoda
Family	Gnathiidae

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