Biodiversity and taxonomy of the parasitic Crustacea

G Boxshall, P Hayes - Parasitic Crustacea: State of knowledge and future …, 2019 - Springer
Crustaceans have independently adopted a parasitic mode of life on numerous occasions,
and this chapter reviews the classification and species richness of each of the parasitic …

[HTML][HTML] A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India

S Ravichandran, P Vigneshwaran, G Rameshkumar - Zootaxa, 2019 - mapress.com
The parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 of the India exclusive economic zone
is reviewed. A total of 56 nominal species corresponding to 48 valid species belonging to …

Molecular phylogeny of obligate fish parasites of the family Cymothoidae (Isopoda, Crustacea): evolution of the attachment mode to host fish and the habitat shift from …

H Hata, A Sogabe, S Tada, R Nishimoto, R Nakano… - Marine Biology, 2017 - Springer
In host–parasite coevolution, parasite innovations including the acquisition of new habitats
and novel traits can trigger evolutionary breakthroughs and enhance parasite diversification …

Life cycle and life history strategies of parasitic Crustacea

EH Williams, L Bunkley-Williams - … crustacea: state of knowledge and future …, 2019 - Springer
Different parasitic life strategies are described including four new life cycles: complex
rebrooding, micro-male, mesoparasite and prey-predator transfer. Four new life cycle …

Distribution pattern of crustacean ectoparasites of freshwater fish from Brazil

M Tavares-Dias, MBF Dias-Júnior… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
The purpose of this study was to use the informations relating to parasite crustaceans
species that was published over the course of one century (1913 to 2013), in order to search …

The ecological significance of parasitic crustaceans

PC Sikkel, RL Welicky - Parasitic Crustacea: State of knowledge and future …, 2019 - Springer
Despite that aquatic parasite diversity and abundance likely surpasses that of terrestrial
parasites, our understanding of aquatic parasites lags far behind our knowledge of terrestrial …

Diseases and mortalities of fishes and other animals in the Gulf of Mexico

RM Overstreet, WE Hawkins - Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico …, 2017 - Springer
Most mortality results from natural causes including red tide which is primarily restricted to
West Florida and cold-kills that have greater influence in the warmer regions of South Texas …

An Introduction to Diopatra, the Amazing Ecosystem Engineering Polychaete

A Arias, SA Woodin, H Paxton - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The genus Diopatra is a major driver in sedimentary systems, altering the
structure of habitats and changing the frequency of refugia and predator access to prey. It is …

Fossil crustaceans as parasites and hosts

AA Klompmaker, GA Boxshall - Advances in parasitology, 2015 - Elsevier
Numerous crustacean lineages have independently moved into parasitism as a mode of life.
In modern marine ecosystems, parasitic crustaceans use representatives from many …

[HTML][HTML] Morphological Description and Molecular Characterisation of Glyptothoa gen. nov., a Fish Parasitic Deep-sea Cymothoid (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Indian …

AK Helna, PT Aneesh, AB Kumar, S Ohtsuka - Zoological Studies, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Glyptothoa sagara gen. and sp. nov. is described from the host fish Glyptophidium macropus
Alcock, 1894 (Ophidiidae), at depths 300 to 650 metres from the southwest coast of India …