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Ceratothoa
Sign in to save'''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.
Species
tongue-biter
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderIsopoda
- FamilyCymothoidae
Habitatmarine
Observations9
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 134
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Cymothoidae
- Collections
- AMNH, USNM, TMAG, QVMAG, QM
- Recorded in
- South Africa, United States, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Egypt, Australia
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'''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.
==Species== Currently, 26 valid species in this genus are recognized:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ceratothoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.