Browsing by Subject "Norileca"

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Biodiversity and systematics of branchial cavity inhabiting fish parasitic isopods (Cymothoidae) from sub-Sahara Africa

Van der Wal, Serita (North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2018)

Isopods from the family Cymothoidae Leach, 1814 are well known ectoparasites of marine and freshwater fishes, most often attaching to the external surface, branchial chamber or buccal cavity of their hosts. Cymothoids have ...
Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish parasitic isopod Norileca indica (Milne Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) with a key to the genus

Van der Wal, Serita; Smit, Nico J.; Hadfield, Kerry A. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

Norileca indica (Milne Edwards, 1840) is fully redescribed based on ovigerous females collected from Maputo Bay, Mozambique, from the branchial cavity of the fish host Selar crumenophthalmus Bloch, 1793. An identification ...