Glossobius 183 



Uropods hardly reaching halfway along lateral margin of pleotelson; exopod 

 slightly longer than endopod. Pleotelson about twice wider than long; 

 broadly rounded and somewhat bilobed. 



RECORDS Yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus: Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; 

 Carrie Bow Cay, Belize; Margarita Island, Venezuela; Panama. Mutton 

 snapper Lutjanus analis: Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; Panama. Lane snapper 

 Lutjanus synagris: Panama. Mahogany snapper Lutjanus mahogoni: Panama. 

 Pigfish Orthopristis chrysoptera: Florida, Gulf of Mexico. Spot Leiostomus 

 xantliurus: Texas, Gulf of Mexico. Spotted seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus: Texas, 

 Gulf of Mexico. Inshore lizardfish Synodus foetens : Texas, Gulf of Mexico. No 

 host recorded: Massachusetts; South Carohna; Georgia; Florida Keys; 

 Bahamas; Cuba; Trinidad; Brazil. 



Cymothoa oestrum (Linnaeus, 1793) 

 Figure 82D 



DIAGNOSIS Ovigerous 9 38 mm. Cephalon in dorsal view with ante- 

 rolateral angles rounded, anterior margin slightly excavate; eyes absent. An- 

 terolateral angles of pereonite 1 expanded, broadly rounded, reaching to 

 level of anterior margin of cephalon. Pereonites 4-7 with high rounded 

 carina on basis. Uropod reaching posteriorly beyond midlength of 

 pleotelson; exopod slightly longer than endopod. Pleotelson length slighdy 

 more than half basal width. 



RECORDS Bigeye scad Selar crumenophthalmus : Bermuda; U.S. Virgin Is- 

 lands. Bigeye Priacanthus arenatus: Bermuda. Bar jack Caranx ruber: Florida 

 Keys; Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Horse-eye jack Caranx latus: Bahamas; Bar- 

 bados. Crevalle jack Caranx hippos: Venezuela. Jack Caranx sp.: Jamaica; Cu- 

 rasao. Hind Epinephelus sp.: Grenada. Parrotfish: Jamaica. Seatrout Cynoscion 

 sp.: Panama. Tarpon Megalops atlantica: Texas, Gulf of Mexico. No host re- 

 corded: Honduras; Haiti. 



Glossobius Schioedte and Meinert, 1883 



DIAGNOSIS Cephalon not immersed in pereonite 1; excavate on either side 

 in anterior half, forming broad and anteriorly rounded median area; anten- 

 nae fitting into excavate areas. Bases of antennules contiguous, expanded. 

 Antennules broader and longer than antennae. Bases of pereopods 4-7 with 

 posterior margin expanded and flattened. Pleonites 1-3 immersed in per- 

 eonite 7. 



