Ourozeuktes bopyroides (Lesueur, 1814)

Cymothoa bopyroides Lesueur, 1814: 44 .

Ourozeuktes owenii Milne Edwards, 1840: 276 .— White, 1847: 111.— Jennings, 1896: 329–338, pl. 13–14.

Ourozeuktes pyriformis Haswell, 1882: 284, pl. I–IV.

Urozeuctes monacanthi Schiöedte & Meinert, 1884: 407–410, figs 8–10.

Urozeuctes caudatus Schiöedte & Meinert, 1884: 411–412, figs 11–12.

Ourozeuktes bopyroides .— Trilles, 1994: 102.— Poore, 2002: 182.

Type and type locality. Whereabouts the type material for these species remains unknown. The type locality is Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande) (Lesueur, 1814; Poore, 2002).

Remarks. The genus has one monotypic species, the type species of which is Ourozeuktes bopyroides (Lesueur, 1814), other named species are junior synonyms of the type species. Ourozeuktes bopyroides can be identified by the cephalon is small and subtriangular in shape, sunk in a deep notch between the lateral portions of the first thoracic segment; all pleonites fused with the pleotelson.

This species is known only from Acanthaluteres vittiger (Castelnau, 1873) and is the only known flesh burrowing genus species within the family Cymothoidae . White, (1847) is the only Indian record of the species from without host and the specimen deposited in British Museum of Natural History but probably currently lost. As no indication of the locality of the examined specimens, and knowledge that the species is known only from Australia from Acanthaluteres vittiger, the species is excluded from Indian fauna.

Distribution. Known only from Australia (see Poore, 2002).

Host. Ourozeuktes bopyroides (Lesueur, 1814) is only found on leatherjackets Acanthaluteres vittiger from the family Monacanthidae (Hale 1926) .