Review of the fish parasitic genus ceratothoa dana, 1852 (crustacea, isopoda, cymothoidae) from south africa, including the description of two new species

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• who: Kerry A. Hadfield from the Cymothoid isopods are obligate parasites of both freshwater and marine fishes, where they will attach to the external surfaces, gills or inside the buccal-cavity of their fish host (Kensley and Schotte, Trilles, )These isopods are economically important parasites as they have been shown to cause detrimental effects on fish in captivity including growth inhibition, malnutrition, anaemia and death in smaller fish (Romestand, Bragoni et_al, Adlard and Lester, Horton and Okamura, Mladineo, Ravi and Rajkumar, ). One of the most common genera of tongue-biters (cymothoids found inside the buccal-cavity of . . .
  

   

  

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