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Figure 21.Photographs of the Ceratothoa specimens studied: A lateral view of Ceratothoa africanae sp. n. (SAM A45938) B dorsal view of Ceratothoa africanae sp. n. (SAM A45938) C lateral view of Ceratothoa famosa sp. n. (SAM A45941) D dorsal view of Ceratothoa famosa sp. n. (SAM A45941) E dorsal view of Ceratothoa imbricata (Fabricius, 1775) (BMNH 1979.403.1) F dorsal view of Ceratothoa trigonocephala (Leach, 1818) (NHMUK 2013.1013).
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Multicrustacea (typical crustaceans)
- Malacostraca (malacostracans)
- Eumalacostraca
- Peracarida (peracarids)
- Isopoda (isopods)
- Cymothooidea
- Cymothoidae (tongue biters)
- Ceratothoa (tongue-biter)
- Ceratothoa africanae
- Panarthropoda
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- Kerry A. Hadfield, Niel L. Bruce, Nico J. Smit
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- Hadfield K, Bruce N, Smit N (2014) Review of the fish parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of two new species ZooKeys 400: 1–42
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