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    The Cymothoidae are a family of isopods in the suborder Cymothoida found in both marine and freshwater environments. Cymoithoids are ectoparasites, usually...
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    exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae. It enters a fish through the gills. The female attaches to the tongue...
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    September 2021. Horton, Tammy (2000). "Ceratothoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean...
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    unequal distribution along different geographical areas The life cycle of Cymothoidae, which are protandric hermaphrodites, encompasses mating of adult male...
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    Anilocra (Cymothoidae) parasitising the fish Spicara maena, Italy...
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    classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Isopoda Family: Cymothoidae Genus: Cymothoa Fabricius, 1787...
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    attaching parasite Glossobius parexocoetii, an isopod in the family Cymothoidae. P. brachypterus has also been seen hosting various other species of...
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    Elthusa is a genus of isopods in the family Cymothoidae, with 40 described species. The following species are recognised in the genus Elthusa: Elthusa...
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  • Wildlife. p. 17. Horton, Tammy (2000). "Ceratorhoa steindachneri (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) new to British waters with a key to north east Atlantic and Mediterranean...
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  • it is common for other parasitic isopods. J. P. Trilles (1979). "Les Cymothoidae (Isopoda, Flabellifera; parasites des poissons) du Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke...
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  • Sri Lanka is an island close to the southern end of India with a tropical environment. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions...
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    Elthusa californica is a species of isopod in the family Cymothoidae of the order Isopoda. E. californica is a saltwater parasitic isopod. Like many species...
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    et al. “Parasitic Isopod Cymothoa Eremita (Brünnich 1783) (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) Affects the Growth of Black Pomfret Parastromateus Niger (Bloch 1795)...
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    (2014-01-01). "Redescription of Ichthyoxenus puhi (Bowman, 1962) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), parasite of the moray eel Gymnothorax griseus (Lacépède, 1803) from...
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    Anilocra capensis is a species of parasitic isopod in the family Cymothoidae. It is endemic to southern Africa. The species preferentially attaches itself...
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    Irish Academy. 101B (3): 251–253. Ramdane, Z. & J. Trilles (2008). "Cymothoidae and Aegidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) from Algeria". Acta Parasitologica....
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    Barybrotidae Hansen, 1890 Cirolanidae Dana, 1852 Corallanidae Hansen, 1890 Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 Gnathiidae Leach, 1814 Protognathiidae Wägele & Brandt, 1988...
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    FishBase. August 2014 version. IUCN Red List WoRMS Prevalence of Nerocila depressa (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) on Sardinella albella from a Thai estuary v t e...
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    Ravichandran, Samuthirapandian (2013). "Nerocila species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from Indian marine fishes". Parasitology Research. 112 (3): 1273–1286...
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  • structures in Nerocila as a pre-requisite for reconstructing the evolution of Cymothoidae". PeerJ. 4: e2188. doi:10.7717/peerj.2188. PMC 4941765. PMID 27441121...
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    tb04838.x. Ramdane, Z.; Bensouilah, M.A. & Trilles, J.P. (2007). "The Cymothoidae (Crustacea, Isopoda), parasites on marine fishes, from Algerian fauna"...
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    type of isopod, with Münster suggesting it to be a member of the family Cymothoidae based on its short, curved legs pressing against its body. As more remains...
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  • needed] It is parasitized by Anphiira xinguensis, an isopode of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite is only known from Ossubtus xinguense where it lives in...
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  • parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species"....
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  • Anilocra pomacentri is a species of marine isopod in the family Cymothoidae. It is found off the coast of eastern Australia and is an external parasite...
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  • type species, A. branchiatus. Beddard placed Anuropus in the family Cymothoidae, but in 1893, Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing wrote it "may have greater...
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    "First record of the Indo-Pacific Cymothoa indica (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a Lessepsian species in the Mediterranean Sea". Acta Parasitologica...
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    Isopoda, and suggested that it may belong within the range of a family Cymothoidae, possibly an intermediate species between Serolis and Cymothoa. In 1843...
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    Jean-Paul Trilles; Daniel Golani (1997). "Livoneca sp. (Flabellifera: Cymothoidae), an isopod parasite in the oral and branchial cavities of the Red Sea...
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    (1995). "The Life-Cycle and Biology of Anilocra pomacentri (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), an Ectoparasitic Isopod of the Coral-Reef Fish, Chromis nitida (Perciformes...
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