Photos of parasitic isopods on wild fish

[Peter Clark]

I was recently scuba diving in Bonaire (Caribbean) and saw a couple of fish with parasitic isopods attached to them. Never seen that before. The first fish had a single one on its left side, but the second fish had one on each side. The first one kept swimming around me. Poor thing. Anyway, I just thought you all would be interested in these photos.

 

[Mcdy]

That doesn't look right? Is that normal?

 

[Peter Clark]

That doesn't look right? Is that normal?

No idea. I saw many of this species, but only the two had the isopods that I saw.