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Scientific Name: Cymothoa indica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
English Name: Tounge- eating louse
Local/Bangla Name: Not Known
Tounge- eating louse - Not Known - Cymothoa indica - Type: Zooplankton

Photo: Kishor Seth et al.(2021)

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Cymothoidae
Description:
This organism displays bilateral symmetry with a stout body and a vaulted dorsum. The cephalon is sub ovate or nearly pyriform, with a broad truncation at the anterior end in dorsal view, not noticeably embedded in the pereonite. Eyes are small and inconspicuous in females but relatively large and distinct in males. The antennules are stout and approximately the same length as the antennae, consisting of eight articles and extending to the anterior margin of pereonite 1. The antennae have nine articles. The mandible palp lacks setae, while the maxillule features four terminal spines, and the maxilla and maxilliped exhibit lateral lobes and palp with curved spines. The first pereonite is much larger than the others. All pleonites are visible, progressively widening towards the posterior. In dorsal view, all coxae are conspicuous. Pereiopods lack spines and gradually increase in size. The pleopods are not distinctly visible in dorsal view, and their peduncles lack retinacula. The uropods extend almost to the distal margin of the subtriangular pleotelson, with the rami being approximately equal in length. The organism’s coloration is dark brown or pale tan, with very sparse chromatophores scattered over the dorsal surface, whether it is alive or preserved.Females have two gonopores on the ventral surface near the fifth pair of legs, whereas males possess two pores on the ventral distal margin of the seventh pereonite and two well-developed appendix masculina on the endopods of the second pleopods.
Environment:
Marine, Brackish
Main References:

Ahmed ATA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M (eds.) (2008) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 18. Part II. Arthropoda: Crustacea. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 226 pp

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