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<paragraph id="BBC7260A595F9309B7407F21E3EC7BF8" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Taxon classification Animalia Isopoda Cymothoidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="95D3BFEC3A92F4E565E190BC59685FA5" ID-CoL="742W5" authority="Bruce, 1986" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1986" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia Bruce, 1986</taxonomicName>
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Figs 1-2
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<taxonomicName id="EFAB22B2B73121352FF9BCD46CDB5EC5" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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Bruce, 1986: 1116-1119, figs. 13-14. -
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<bibRefCitation id="4837C36E72ADA4333773A4C29C9A71A7" author="Trilles, J-P" journalOrPublisher="Studia Marina" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="1 - 288" title="Les Cymothoidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) du Monde. Podrome pour une faune" volume="21 / 22" year="1994">Trilles 1994</bibRefCitation>
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: 203. -
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<bibRefCitation id="5BFF4A06B7CD934B2A9ACCB96248CF09" author="Bunkley-Williams, L" journalOrPublisher="Caribbean Marine Studies" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="27 - 30" title="Some isopods associated with Venezuelan fishes." volume="6" year="1998">Bunkley-Williams et al. 1998</bibRefCitation>
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: 29. -
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<bibRefCitation id="45D5DB561B7A893655FB2FDC68BA4E32" author="Bunkley-Williams, L" journalOrPublisher="Revista de Biologia Tropical" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="175 - 188" title="Isopods (Isopoda: Aegidae, Cymothoidae, Gnathiidae) associated with Venezuelan marine fishes (Elasmobranchii, Actinopterygii)." volume="54" year="2006">Bunkley-Williams et al. 2006</bibRefCitation>
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: 178. -
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<bibRefCitation id="00FCABAF9BC4342B093FC5BAA4B1757B" author="Schotte, M" editor="Felder, DL" journalOrPublisher="Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="973 - 986" title="Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico." volumeTitle="Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota" year="2009">Schotte et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
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: 983.
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<paragraph id="CCEFCF07D9E8BCBFB7F8D63954F0EB2B" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Material examined.</paragraph>
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♀ (15.0 mm TL; 10.0 mm W), ♂ (9.0 mm TL; 4.0 mm W) collected from Lameshur Bay,
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, St. John Island, US Virgin Islands, from the gills of the Atlantic needlefish (34 mm TL),
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<taxonomicName id="B93BC06301A032257C4566091F99EA70" family="Belonidae" genus="Strongylura" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Strongylura marina" order="Beloniformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="marina">Strongylura marina</taxonomicName>
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, 18 May 2013, coll. Nico J. Smit (AMNH_IZC 00197448).
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<paragraph id="6B5C8C4E06E7DA4B0C5032C3D5001E86" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Ovigerous female.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="AA92588B6F41C6BE47BF68EE36DF5C02" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Body moderately twisted, 1.4 times as long as greatest width, strongly arched longitudinally, widest at pereonite 3, most narrow at pereonite 1, lateral margins slightly convex. Cephalon 0.7 times longer than wide, visible from dorsal view, subtriangular. Eyes oval with distinct margins, 0.2 times width of cephalon, 0.4 times length of cephalon. Coxae 2-3 narrow; 4-7 large, rounded and produced, slightly produced past pereonite margin. Pereonites 1-4 increasing in length and width; 5-7 decreasing in length and width; becoming more progressively rounded posteriorly. Pleon with pleonite 1 largely concealed by pereonite 7; pleonites posterior margin smooth, mostly concave; pleonites 2-5 partially overlapped by pereonite 7; pleonite 5 posterior margin straight. Pleotelson 0.6 times as long as anterior width, dorsal surface smooth, anterolateral margin recessed, lateral margins widen slightly then curve inwards, posterior margin broadly truncate, without median point.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="957A856576F7E56DE3B3E8281983A029" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Antennula comprised of 7 articles; articles 1 and 2 distinct and articulated; article 2 0.8 times as long as article 1; article 3 as long as wide, 0.5 times as long as combined lengths of articles 1 and 2; last article terminating in 4-7 short simple setae. Antenna comprised of 7 articles; article 3 1.2 times as long as article 2, 2.1 times as long as wide; article 4 2.3 times as long as wide, 0.9 times as long as article 3; article 5 0.7 times as long as article 4, 1.7 times as long as wide; last article terminating in 6-7 short simple setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="E71787AA9C36E6C6C5EE1B3A0E27D3FB" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Molar process present, mandible palp without setae. Maxillula with 4 terminal robust setae. Maxilla lateral lobe with 2 recurved robust setae; mesial lobe with 2 large recurved robust setae. Maxilliped weakly segmented, palp article 2 with no simple setae, article 3 with 4 recurved robust setae and no simple setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="98FA92825272F1F4F51DEAB17F4274B8" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Pereopod 1 basis 1.2 times as long as greatest width; ischium 0.9 times as long as basis; merus proximal margin with slight bulbous protrusion; carpus with straight proximal margin; propodus 1.3 times as long as wide; dactylus slender, 1.1 times as long as propodus, 2.3 times as long as basal width. Pereopod 7 basis 1.9 times as long as greatest width; ischium 0.9 as long as basis, without protrusions; merus proximal margin without bulbous protrusion, 0.5 as long as ischium, 0.9 times as long as wide; carpus 0.9 as long as ischium, without bulbous protrusion, 1.1 times as long as wide; propodus 0.8 as long as ischium, 1.7 times as long as wide; dactylus slender, 0.9 as long as propodus, 2.4 times as long as basal width. Pereopod 7 with small indentations on the inner side of the ischium, merus and carpus.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="21CF0D61F3E8135357AC0EA5ABE690C5" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Pleopod 1 exopod as long as wide, lateral margin strongly convex, distally broadly rounded, mesial margin strongly convex; endopod 1.2 times as long as wide, lateral margin weakly convex, distally narrowly rounded, mesial margin straight, peduncle 0.7 times as wide as long. Pleopods 2-5 similar in structure to pleopod 1. Large medial lobes present and increasing in size from pleopods 1 to 5. Peduncle lobes increasing in size from pleopods 2 to 5.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C1AAB0CE68216AF502C18DC3829AF316" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Uropod longer than pleotelson; peduncle 0.7 times longer than exopod, lateral margin without setae; rami extending beyond pleotelson, marginal setae absent, apices broadly rounded. Endopod apically slightly pointed, 3.6 times as long as greatest width, lateral margin weakly convex, mesial margin weakly convex, terminating without setae. Exopod extending beyond endopod, 1.9 times longer than endopod, 3.8 times as long as greatest width, apically rounded, lateral margin straight, mesial margin straight, terminating without setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="475C4D606B119F92244CA0F3FAD257D7" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype (16.2 mm TL) from the gill cavity of
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<taxonomicName id="F8AD36204003A76C40F8E223EAC4FEF6" family="Belonidae" genus="Tylosurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tylosurus crocodilis subsp. crocodilis" order="Beloniformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="crocodilis" subSpecies="crocodilis">Tylosurus crocodilis crocodilis</taxonomicName>
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from Bahia Mochima, Venezuela (USNM 216274); Paratypes (USNM 216275-216278) (
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; not examined).
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<paragraph id="85A6E41EDDEE136DFDB33E3AE8BBFFD9" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Distribution.</paragraph>
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, Venezuela (
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<bibRefCitation id="42796E0071F6C8014F823BBC08D9B5F4" author="Bruce, NL" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="1089 - 1192" title="Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes." url="10.1080/00222938600770781" volume="20" year="1986">Bruce 1986</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation id="E929FE458960A85219ACC3047D07B9B0" author="Bunkley-Williams, L" journalOrPublisher="Caribbean Marine Studies" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="27 - 30" title="Some isopods associated with Venezuelan fishes." volume="6" year="1998">Bunkley-Williams et al. 1998</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation id="F8AA36B8A8B55B75F8EF75E77746002B" author="Schotte, M" editor="Felder, DL" journalOrPublisher="Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="973 - 986" title="Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico." volumeTitle="Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota" year="2009">Schotte et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
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); and St. John Island, US Virgin Islands (present study).
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<paragraph id="3C88C45EAB1248278CE1B0FE79BA153E" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Hosts.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="72DC5C2937644BDC1DD75B286A0F936E" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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Known from the hound needlefish,
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& Lesueur, 1821) (
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<bibRefCitation id="7546D5DDC0DB73D3577539052C1708B4" author="Bruce, NL" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="1089 - 1192" title="Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes." url="10.1080/00222938600770781" volume="20" year="1986">Bruce 1986</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation id="BC65D4F0BDA794ADC6DC30C87FAE7EA5" author="Schotte, M" editor="Felder, DL" journalOrPublisher="Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="973 - 986" title="Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico." volumeTitle="Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota" year="2009">Schotte et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
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) and
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<taxonomicName id="E7C181D0192BFDDED3E779829277CD93" family="Belonidae" genus="Strongylura" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Strongylura marina" order="Beloniformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="marina">Strongylura marina</taxonomicName>
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(Walbaum, 1792) (previously unconfirmed but verified in the present study). There is also another unconfirmed record from
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<taxonomicName id="E9ABE4531AF5834210EB5652B431C2A8" family="Belonidae" genus="Strongylura" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Strongylura notata subsp. notata" order="Beloniformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="notata" subSpecies="notata">Strongylura notata notata</taxonomicName>
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(Poey, 1860) in Florida (
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<bibRefCitation id="5314AB8D1ABA81FFB574F88A91B9267B" author="Bruce, NL" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="1089 - 1192" title="Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes." url="10.1080/00222938600770781" volume="20" year="1986">Bruce 1986</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph id="E029BB98DD653F5190A1AF464FECA5AA" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="73BE9D7255DBEDDEF1248C5C4DDA7CF2" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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is known from
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<taxonomicName id="6C2695E6A66B689E403CCF228C0F6BA1" family="Belonidae" lsidName="" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" rank="family">Belonidae</taxonomicName>
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fish hosts and distinguished by the broad body which is arched in lateral view, the invaginations on the inner portion of pereopod 7, antenna with seven articles, and the shape of the pleotelson which is tapered anteriorly, then widens before bluntly rounding off.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="DFD39099151E290EC40E7A4933E578C7" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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When comparing
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<taxonomicName id="0067FA0D430E31A031E19A4456CDFAB7" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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from the present study to the description given by
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<bibRefCitation id="F0F37FD7A06DA29F045887FB7D2DD878" author="Bruce, NL" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="1089 - 1192" title="Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes." url="10.1080/00222938600770781" volume="20" year="1986">Bruce (1986)</bibRefCitation>
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there are a few minor differences but these are within the normal range of species variation. Variations include a different length to width ratio of the body and size of the eyes on the cephalon, more pronounced rostrum in the holotype, different number of setae on maxilla, but these characteristics given by
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<bibRefCitation id="5260673C3C9BE80FF58E04B945CE4795" author="Bruce, NL" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="1089 - 1192" title="Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes." url="10.1080/00222938600770781" volume="20" year="1986">Bruce (1986)</bibRefCitation>
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are averages based on many specimens and can be variable depending on the specimen. In his remarks on the species,
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<bibRefCitation id="E87D0DA706305AA074656669FFC0CB6F" author="Bruce, NL" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="1089 - 1192" title="Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes." url="10.1080/00222938600770781" volume="20" year="1986">Bruce (1986)</bibRefCitation>
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states the antenna can have seven or eight articles too and thus even this difference can be accounted for.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="ECC8AFF25FF640B04A059129C3B20336" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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The other Caribbean species differ from
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<taxonomicName id="E3EDD5852FDF5C6AE494BB2FD1BC1365" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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in that
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<taxonomicName id="0AF5FC43CCE773EFFC23380938A1B7E0" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya bermudensis" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bermudensis">Mothocya bermudensis</taxonomicName>
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is smaller overall, with smaller eyes and less produced coxae;
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<taxonomicName id="B129625070EF809C86C7C8260B804B9E" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya argenosa" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="argenosa">Mothocya argenosa</taxonomicName>
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has larger eyes, a larger and rounder pleotelson and smaller coxae; and
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<taxonomicName id="13AD0AAC1389725C30F029BDAAFB52E6" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya nana" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nana">Mothocya nana</taxonomicName>
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has a narrower body shape and is not arched longitudinally.
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<taxonomicName id="8FCA599ED2BBB413CEECE800E6D35525" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya bohlkeorum" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bohlkeorum">Mothocya bohlkeorum</taxonomicName>
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has a narrow strongly produced rostrum; antennula and antenna bases closer together; larger and rounder coxae; and less developed proximomedial and peduncle lobes on the pleopods. Lastly,
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<taxonomicName id="40EEE5F44EB2DE207CA4A5ABFCF81358" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya omidaptria" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="omidaptria">Mothocya omidaptria</taxonomicName>
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has much longer uropods, is not arched in lateral view, acute coxae on pereonite 7, and a narrowly produced rostrum. Furthermore, these species all have different hosts to
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<taxonomicName id="5F645C1B9D6D43E760885FE0BB0C6804" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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and thus there is no overlap of this isopod species on its host species in the Caribbean.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F4B79002BB5A497D46B4665B475A5DC6" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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This record of
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<taxonomicName id="BAD21ADE9DE7AE5F894205F75641497C" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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in the US Virgin Islands is a new locality record and also confirms the previously uncertain host record of
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<taxonomicName id="3AD021B54D0A3A42FAD9228BD114F4F6" family="Belonidae" genus="Strongylura" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Strongylura marina" order="Beloniformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="marina">Strongylura marina</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="807F21C7A8B378F2C86A3D19336D2745" author="Bruce, NL" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="9" pageNumber="118" pagination="1089 - 1192" title="Revision of the isopod crustacean genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Cymothoidae: Flabellifera), parasitic on marine fishes." url="10.1080/00222938600770781" volume="20" year="1986">Bruce 1986</bibRefCitation>
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). The locality record conforms to the distribution of this species within the western Atlantic. Likewise, the host record is also from a
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<taxonomicName id="F79ADFC3BF437249871FA34E23F4179C" family="Belonidae" lsidName="" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" rank="family">Belonidae</taxonomicName>
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species and thus conforms to the host preference of this species.
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</paragraph>
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<caption id="47B2D6D8D9E58B3CE386C55D0D9A97C2" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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<paragraph id="43D3C491A3E9FCF2A6E9EF25BE4C0319" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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Figure 1.
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<taxonomicName id="42D52E8E120A8EFB07DCE1B3500F3F3D" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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Bruce, 1986 (15 mm) (AMNH_IZC 00197448): A dorsal view B dorsal view of cephalon C oostegites D lateral view E dorsal view of pleotelson F pereopod 1 G uropod H pereopod 7 showing indentations.
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</caption>
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<caption id="7564FF0BEEAC81967B000A15E19F5B31" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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<paragraph id="0EC0953C3010D50878FA527FE3759A23" pageId="2" pageNumber="111">
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Figure 2.
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<taxonomicName id="5529E67F7D755B0AEE9BCAC7FE48F6C7" class="Malacostraca" family="Cymothoidae" genus="Mothocya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mothocya xenobranchia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xenobranchia">Mothocya xenobranchia</taxonomicName>
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Bruce, 1986 (15 mm) (AMNH_IZC 00197448): A antennula B antenna C tip of maxillula D tip of maxilla E tip of maxilliped article 3 F pleopod 1 G pleopod 2 H pleopod 3 I pleopod 4 J pleopod 5.
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