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Redescription and further report of two buccal attaching fish parasitic cymothoids, Ceratothoa carinata (Bianconi, 1869) and Cymothoa bychowskyi Avdeev, 1979 (Crustacea: Isopoda) with a new record from the southern India Ocean

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Pages 1063-1089 | Received 28 Oct 2021, Accepted 02 Jul 2022, Published online: 12 Aug 2022

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