| Global diversity of fish parasitic isopod crustaceans of the family Cymothoidae NJ Smit, NL Bruce, KA Hadfield International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 3 (2), 188-197, 2014 | 238 | 2014 |
| Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa KA Hadfield, NL Bruce, NJ Smit Zootaxa 3640 (2), 152-176, 2013 | 67 | 2013 |
| Redescription of the monotypic genus Cinusa Schioedte and Meinert, 1884 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a buccal-cavity isopod from South Africa KA Hadfield, NL Bruce, NJ Smit Zootaxa 2437 (1), 51-68, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| Alien freshwater fish parasites from South Africa: diversity, distribution, status and the way forward NJ Smit, W Malherbe, KA Hadfield International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 6 (3), 386-401, 2017 | 52 | 2017 |
| Review of the fish parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of two new species KA Hadfield, NL Bruce, NJ Smit ZooKeys, 1-42, 2014 | 52 | 2014 |
| Redescription of poorly known species of Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), based on original type material KA Hadfield, NL Bruce, NJ Smit ZooKeys 592, 39–91, 2016 | 47 | 2016 |
| Cymothoa hermani sp. nov.(Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea), a parasitic isopod, collected off the Zanzibar coast, Tanzania from the mouth of a parrotfish (Scaridae) KA Hadfield, NL Bruce, NJ Smit Zootaxa 2876 (1), 57-68, 2011 | 36 | 2011 |
| Parasitic Crustacea: State of knowledge and future trends NJ Smit, NL Bruce, KA Hadfield Springer, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Review of Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from southern Africa, with the description of a new species KA Hadfield, NL Bruce, NJ Smit African Zoology 50 (2), 147-163, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Life cycle of the temporary fish parasite, Gnathia pilosus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Gnathiidae) from the east coast of South Africa KA Hadfield, NJ Smit, A Avenant-Oldewage Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89 (7 …, 2009 | 30 | 2009 |
| Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy C Baillie, RL Welicky, KA Hadfield, NJ Smit, S Mariani, RMD Beck BMC evolutionary biology 19 (1), 207, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Marine fish parasitology in South Africa: history of discovery and future direction NJ Smit, KA Hadfield African Zoology 50 (2), 79-92, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| Gnathia pilosus sp. nov.(Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from the east coast of South Africa KA Hadfield, NJ Smit, A Avenant-Oldewage Zootaxa 1894, 23-41, 2008 | 28 | 2008 |
| Morphological description and molecular characterisation of a new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from India PT Aneesh, KA Hadfield, NJ Smit, AB Kumar International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 14, 321-328, 2021 | 24 | 2021 |
| Review of the global distribution and hosts of the economically important fish parasitic isopod genus Ceratothoa (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), including the description of Ceratothoa … KA Hadfield, NJ Smit International Journal for Parasitology 50 (10-11), 899-919, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish parasitic isopod Norileca indica (Milne Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) with a key to … S van der Wal, NJ Smit, KA Hadfield African Zoology 52 (3), 163-175, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocra brillae sp. n. RL Welicky, KA Hadfield, PC Sikkel, NJ Smit ZooKeys 663, 21, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| Understanding growth relationships of African cymothoid fish parasitic isopods using specimens from museum and field collections RL Welicky, W Malherbe, KA Hadfield, NJ Smit International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 8, 182-187, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Introduction to Parasitic Crustacea: State of Knowledge and Future Trends NJ Smit, NL Bruce, KA Hadfield Parasitic Crustacea, 1-6, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Review of the fish parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species S van der Wal, NJ Smit, KA Hadfield ZooKeys 841, 1, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
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