Parasitic isopods of Bopyroidea and Cryptoniscoidea (commonly referred to as epicarideans) are unique in using crustaceans as both intermediate and definitive hosts. In total, 795 epicarideans are known, representing ~7.7% of described isopods. The rate of description of parasitic species has not matched that of free-living isopods and this disparity will likely continue due to the more cryptic...

Niche apportionment models have only been applied once to parasite communities. Only the random assortment model (RA), which indicates that species abundances are independent from each other and that interspecific competition is unimportant, provided a good fit to 3 out of 6 parasite communities investigated. The generality of this result needs to be validated, however. In this study we apply 5...

Swamp eel (Monopterus albus) is one of the highly prospect freshwater fisheries commodities that are consumed by broad community. Marketed swamp eels generally derived from natural caught and cultivated eels. Natural has high risk infected parasites a feed contaminates with larvae parasite cultured could be poor pond biosecurity. Information about types infect culture never been reported before...