Species in the order are found attached to the gut lining of aquatic larvae of Insecta or (rarely) Isopoda.
Cymothoa exigua, for example, is a parasite of the spotted rose snapper fish Lutjanus guttatus in the Gulf of California; it eats the tongue of the fish, and takes its place, in the only known instance of a parasite functionally replacing a host structure.
Isopoden, gesammelt während der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde 1874-76, 1884 - Isopoda collected by the S.M.S. Gazelle voyage of 1874-76.
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Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis was identified in the hepatopancreas of the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda).