DESCRIPTION OF SOME ECTOPARASITIC ISOPODS (CRUSTACEA) ON RED SEA FISHES

DESCRIPTION OF SOME ECTOPARASITIC ISOPODS
(CRUSTACEA) ON RED SEA FISHES
BY
AMINA. ASHOUR*j ISMAIL M. I. SHALABYj

MARl A. A. GHOBASHY AND JOHN M LEWIS

• Zoology Department, Facul1y ofScience, Ain Shams University.
ABSTRACT
Samples of seven species of marine fish from the gulf of Suez
area that adjoining the Red sea were examined for gill isopod
ectoparasites over a period of 30 monrhs from 1997 to 1999 belongs
to the families [Scaridae. Pfecrorhynichidae, Nemiprridae.
Lutjanidae, Lethrinidae .Hemirhamphidae and Serranidaej. Three
little known species of isopods were comprehensIvely described for
the first time with light and scanning electron microscopy..
including a Parniza larva [family .Gnarhiidae] lrona nonadies and
Anilocra le/Jrosoma [family:Cymothoidae}