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- noun zoology Any member of the Cymothoidae.
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Examples
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A team of scientists from Brazil has studied parasitism by another cymothoid parasite called Riggia paranensis, which apparently exhibits something known as "parasitic castration".
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Catfish expert Ian Fuller found this similarly disgusting cymothoid parasite (pictured above and below) in the gut of a dead Corydoras.
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