“…Members of family Cymothoidae have been recorded from the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, Atlantic Ocean, India, Brazil and Australia (Hale, 1926;Trilles, 1991;Horton, 2000;Kayis and Ceylan, 2011;Rameshkumar et al, 2011;Gueretz, et al, 2018;Alves et al, 2019). The ectoparasitic cymothoids are sucking the blood from the branchial chambers, fins, mouth cavities or self-wounds they created in the flesh of their fish hosts (Hoffman, 1998).…”