taxonID	type	description	language	source
039B8781FF81FFBE1C9CFBF8FE15F8D7.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: Two ovigerous females (TL 22 - 23.16 mm; W 1.5 - 11 mm), (ZSI / ANRC / M / 25420) collected from two specimens of Tylosurus choram (Rüppell, 1837) Junglighat (11.65922 N; 92.72515 E), Port Blair, South Andaman, 18 th April 2019. Description: Body faintly twisted to the right side with weakly convex dorsum. Eyes moderately large and 0.32 - 0.4 times the width of the cephalon. Coxal plates are prominent and broad; coxae of pereonites 6 and 7 are 0.87 - 1.0 times longer than their width; coxae of pereonite 7 reach to pleonite 3. Pleon is wide, with sub-parallel sides; 1.1 - 1.8 times the width of fifth pereonite; pleonite 1 is completely obscured by pereonite 7, pereonite 7, and pleonite 5 lateral borders are free on the right. Pleotelson is long and wide, widest in the middle, with a nearly rounded posterior margin. Maxilla has two recurved spines on its lateral and medial lobes, while maxilliped article 3 has four recurved spines. Pereopods 1 to 7 are nearly the same size; Pereopod 7 ’ s merus, carpus, and ischium, are somewhat longer than those the pereopod 1. Lateral lobes of pleopods 2 to 5 prominent. Uropods are of different sizes, one with distinctly shorter rami and with short and slender endopods.	en	Rajendra, S., Nashad, M., Nigam, Naveen Kumar, Raghunathan, C., Mohamed Hatha, A. A. (2025): New distributional records of the isopod parasite, Mothocya (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), from Andaman Islands, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 125 (1): 33-39, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v125/i1/2025/172890, URL: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v125/i1/2025/172890
039B8781FF81FFBF1F5AFF27FCF4F8D4.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: One ovigerous female (ZSI / ANRC / M / 24065) (TL 28.5 mm; W 12.5 mm), Durgapur (13.274033 N; 93.044633 E), Diglipur, North Andaman Islands collected from Fistularia commersonii Rüppel, 30 th April 2018. One ovigerous female 9 (ZSI / ANRC / M / 25421) (TL 33.7 mm; 12.83 mm W), Junglighat (11.65922 N; 92.72515 E), Port Blair, South Andaman collected from Hemiramphus far (Forsskål, 1775), 18 th April 2019. Description: The body is almost straight with a smooth dorsal surface, 2.3 - 2.45 times the length of its greatest seven articles antennae with 8 articles, and terminal article with 2 to 3 simple setae. Lateral lobe and a medial lobe of the maxilla with two robust recurved setae. The maxillula has 4 terminal setae. Article 3 is a maxilliped with six recurved setae. Uropods are 0.38 - 0.42 times the length of the pleotelson, with the rami not extending beyond it. The exopod is 1.4 times longer than the endopod, extending beyond it. Endopods are slightly pointed apically, 4.2 times longer than their maximum width, and both lack setae. Pereopod 1 has an ischium that is 0.78 - 0.8 times the length of the basis, a carpus that is 0.5 - 0.55 times the length of the merus, a propodus 1.28 - 1.32 times as long as wide, and a dactylus that is 0.85 - 0.9 times the length of the propodus. Pereopod 7 has a slightly wider basis than pereopod 1, with an ischium 0.7 times the length of the basis. The carpus is 1.25 - 1.3 times the length of the ischium, the propodus is 0.63 - 0.68 times the length of the ischium, and the dactylus is 1.2 times the length of the propodus. width, and is widest at pereonites 4 and 5. The cephalon is visible dorsally and is 0.65 - 0.7 times longer compared to it is wide. The eyes are prominent, with an eye diameter of 0.18 - 0.22 times with width of the cephalon and a length of 0.28 - 0.32 times times the cephalon width. The anterior margin of pereonite 1 is indented, and the anterior lateral margin extends up to the inferior border of the eye. The First three pereonites’ length and width increased respectively, and for pereonites 5 - 7 it decreased. Pereonites 4 - 7 have rounded coxae that do not lengthen beyond the respective pereonite edges. The First pleonite is mostly concealed by pereonite 7, pleonite 2 is partially concealed by pereonite 7, and pleonite 5 is the widest. Pleotelson is large with a roughly rounded posterior margin, and lateral margins convex, measuring 0.6 - 0.78 times the length of the anterior width. Antennula with	en	Rajendra, S., Nashad, M., Nigam, Naveen Kumar, Raghunathan, C., Mohamed Hatha, A. A. (2025): New distributional records of the isopod parasite, Mothocya (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), from Andaman Islands, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 125 (1): 33-39, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v125/i1/2025/172890, URL: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v125/i1/2025/172890
