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Description of Life Cycle Stages of Fish Parasite Cymothoa pulchrum (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with DNA Barcode Linked to Morphological Details

Hiroki Fujita,
Haruki Shinoda and
Yuzumi Okumura

Fishes2025, 10(4), 155;https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10040155

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1 April 2025

Cymothoidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) infest fish in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Cymothoa pulchrum Lanchester, 1902 is a cymothoid commonly found in the buccal cavity of mainly Tetraodontiformes fishes, distributed in the central and we...

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New Records of Fish Parasitic Isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Gulf of Thailand

Watchariya Purivirojkul and
Apiruedee Songsuk

Animals2020, 10(12), 2298;https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10122298

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4 December 2020

From a total of 4140 marine fishes examined, eight species of parasitic isopods were reported from marine fishes in the Gulf of Thailand. These isopods were identified in two families, Corallanidae (Argathona macronema and Argathona rhinoceros) and C...

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Morphological and Molecular Study of the Fish Parasitic Crustaceans Cymothoa indica and Mothocya collettei (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with New Distribution Records

Hiroki Fujita

Diversity2023, 15(9), 969;https://doi.org/10.3390/d15090969

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27 August 2023

Cymothoidae are parasitic isopods that infest fishes inhabiting marine, brackish, and fresh-water environments. The systematics, distribution, and host specificity of cymothoids is often unknown. In this study, morphological observations and molecula...

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