The genetic analysis showed 2.5 - 2.6 per cent difference from Lobothorax typus and a 23.9 - 32.2 per cent variation from other related species. Parasitic isopods are known to infect marine and ...

Researchers of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Berhampur University, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, have discovered a new species of fish parasitic isopod (Lobothorax bharat) from the ...

Giant isopods are a distant cousin of crabs and ... They are thought to be caught between 300 to 500 metres deep in the ocean. How parasitic worms wriggle their way into sushi and other raw ...