Morphological and molecular assessment of Livoneca redmanii Leach, 1818, and Anilocra alloceraea Koelbel, 1878 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Egyptian waters

Zayed, Osama El-Sayed; Hellal, Ahmed Metwally; Zeina, Amr Farag; Tayel, Safaa Ismail; El‑Tabakh, Mohamed A. M.

doi:10.1186/s42269-023-01158-y

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 1 List of cymothoid species to clarify the acceptability of those species with their host recorded in Egyptian coasts from the literature cited

From: Morphological and molecular assessment of Livoneca redmanii Leach, 1818, and Anilocra alloceraea Koelbel, 1878 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Egyptian waters

Parasite Species	Fish Host	Region	References	Acceptability
Anilocra leptosoma Bleeker, 1857	Argyrosomus regius	Mediterranean	Rania and Rehab (2015)	Reinvestigation is required
Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758)	Dicentrarchus labrax	Qarun Lake	Mahmoud et al. (2017)
Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758)	Solea Solea	Qarun Lake	Shaheen et al. (2017)
Anilocra meridionalis Searle, 1914	Sardinella sp	Suez Canal	Youssef et al. (2014)
Cymothoa indica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884	Pagrus pagrus,	Mediterranean	Rania and Rehab (2015)
Cymothoa spinipalpa Thatcher, de Arujo, de Lima & Chellapa, 2007	Argyrops filamentosus	Mediterranean	Abd El Aal and El Ashram (2011)	Further morphological investigation is necessary
Cymothoa exigua Schioedte & Meinert, 1884	Sciaena umbra	Suez Canal	Youssef et al. (2014)	Reinvestigation is required
Nerocila orbignyi (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)	Tilapia zilli	Qarun Lake	Abdel-Latif (2016), Mahmoud et al. (2016), Shaheen et al. (2017), and Younes et al. (2016)	Reinvestigation is required
	Mugil capito,	Qarun Lake	Shaheen et al. (2017)
	Dicentrarchus labrax	Qarun Lake & Suez Canal	Mahmoud et al. (2017) and Eissa, et al. (2020)
	Solea vulgaris	Qarun Lake	Younes et al. (2016) and Shaheen et al. (2017)
	Solea solea,	Qarun Lake	Shaheen et al. (2017)
Nerocila bivittate (Risso, 1816)	Dicentrarchus labrax	Suez Canal	Eissa et al. (2020)	Further morphological investigation is necessary
	Sparus aurata	Suez Canal	Eissa et al. (2020)
	Lithognathus mormyrus	Mediterranean	Samn et al. (2014)
Renocila threshorum Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1980	Dicentrarchus labrax,	Suez Canal and Qarun Lake	Eissa et al. (2020) and Mahmoud et al. (2017)	Reinvestigation is required
	Dicentrarchus puncatatus	Suez Canal and Qarun Lake	Eissa et al. (2020) and Mahmoud et al. (2017)
	Tilapia zilli	Qarun Lake	Shaheen et al. (2017)
Livoneca ovalis (Say, 1818)	Mugil capito	Qarun Lake	Shaheen et al. (2017)
Livoneca ovalis (Say, 1818)	Solea solea	Qarun Lake	Shaheen et al. (2017)
Livoneca redmanii Leach, 1818	Mugil cephalus	Qarun Lake	Hellal and Yousef (2018), Khalaf-Allah and Youssef (2019)	Valid identification
	Solea solea
	Tilapia zilli
	Mugil capito	Qarun Lake and Mediterranean	Mahmoud et al. (2017, 2019), Geba et al. (2019), Abdullah and Hamouda (2022)
Mothocya sp.	Atherinomorous lacunosus	Red Sea	Abdelmageed et al. (2022)

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