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Review of Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from southern Africa, with the description of a new species
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Kerry A Hadfield --- Water Research Group (Ecology), Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University, South Africa Niel L Bruce --- Water Research Group (Ecology), Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University, South Africa Nico J Smit --- Water Research Group (Ecology), Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University, South AfricaThree species of Mothocya are reported from the east coast of southern Africa: Mothocya plagulophora (Haller, 1880) from Maputo, Mozambique, from the gills of Hemiramphus far (Forsskål, 1775); Mothocya renardi (Bleeker, 1857) from diverse localities in South Africa and Mozambique,... -
Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish parasitic isopod Norileca indica (Milne Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) with a key to the genus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Serita van der Wal --- Water Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Nico J Smit --- Water Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Kerry A Hadfield --- Water Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, South AfricaNorileca 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 key to the species of Norileca Bruce, 1990 is... -
Unique co-occurrence of two genera of cymothoid ectoparasitic isopods on the same individual fish host
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: RL Welicky --- , South Africa NJ Smit --- , South AfricaParasitism of a host fish by a single species of cymothoid is regularly reported. For the first time on a temperate-fish host and in South African waters, we observed two species of cymothoids, the flesh-infesting Anilocra capensis and the tongue-infesting...