First record of the snapper-choking isopod Cymothoa excisa (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) parasitizing invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)
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Aguilar-Perera, Alfonso
Williams, Ernest H.
Bunkley-Williams, Lucy
Quijano-Puerto, Luis
Carrillo-Flota, Evelyn
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Two female snapper-choking isopods Cymothoa excisa (body length 11 and 14 mm) were in the buccal cavity of two invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (total length 294 and 301 mm) collected in Alacranes Reef, southern Gulf of Mexico. This is the first record of C. excisa parasitizing invasive lionfish P. volitans in coral reefs of the Western Atlantic, where these isopods appear to have infected the host through adult prey-predator transfer
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Aguilar-Perera, A. et al. 2018. First record of the snapper-choking isopod Cymothoa excisa (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) parasitizing invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). European Marine Biology Symposium Papers 2018. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 98 (Special issue 8):2095-2097. [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315417001576]