Hosts. Cymothoa indica from a wide range of host families: Bagridae: Mystus gulio (Hamilton, 1822); Belonidae: Strongylura strongylura (Rajkumar et al. 2004); Carangidae; Ulua aurochs, Carangoides hedlandensis (Martin et al. 2016); Cichlidae: Etroplus maculatus (Bloch, 1795), Etroplus suratensis (Bloch, 1790) (Panikkar and Aiyar 1937); Cynoglossidae, Cynoglossus sp. (Martin et al. 2016); Clupeidae: Nematolosa nasus; Gobiidae: Oxyurichthys macrolepis (Ravi & Rajkumar 2007), Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton, 1822) (Chilton 1924; Panikkar & Aiyar 1937); Latidae: Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) (Rajkumar et al. 2005 a); Siganidae: Siganus javus (Rajkumar et al. 2005 b); Sparidae: Pagellus erythrinus (Trilles & Bariche 2006); Sillaginidae: Sillago sp. and Sillago ciliate (Martin et al. 2016); Sphyraenidae: Sphyraena chrysotaenia (Trilles & Bariche 2006), Sphyraena obtusata (Veerapan & Ravichandran 2000; Trilles & Bariche 2006); Synodontidae: Synodus myops (previously rachinocephalus myops (Forster, 1801) (Veerapan & Ravichandran 2000; Trilles & Bariche 2006); unknown eel (Martin et al. 2016).
Sumber: A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India