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.