Ceratothoa
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Name (Hebrew)
סרתות'ואה
Name (Latin)
Ceratothoa
See Also From tracing topical name
Cymothoidae
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q4411991
Library of congress:
sh 89004256
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Bruce, N.L. Species of the parasitic Isopod Genera Ceratothoa and Glossobius (Crustacea: Cymothoidae) from the mouths of flying fishes and halfbeaks (Beloniformes), 1989.
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Ceratothoa (10.7717-peerj.9181) Figure 4
van der Wal S, Haug JT. 2020. Shape of attachment structures in parasitic isopodan crustaceans: the influence of attachment site and ontogeny. PeerJ 8:e9181 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9181, CC BY 4.0
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Wikipedia description:
Ceratothoa is a genus of isopod ectoparasites of teleost fish, first described by James Dwight Dana in 1852. Infection by Ceratothoa can cause anaemia, lesions, growth retardation, emaciation, and mortality in their fish hosts.
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