New host record, black scorpionfish Scorpaena porcus (Pisces, Scorpaenidae) for Nerocila orbigny and Ceratothoa parallela (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae)

Abstract

        Two isopod species, Nerocila orbigny and Ceratothoa parallela (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) are reported for the first time on and in the black scorpionfish, Scorpaena porcus, collected from the eastern Adriatic Sea. Cymothoids parasitized 5.5 % (6 of 109) of the collected fish.