A new species of fish parasitic isopod, Lobothorax bharat sp. nov. (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus 1758 (Scombriformes: Trichiuridae), India Author Mohapatra, Sandeep Kumar 0000-0002-5813-1746 Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha- 760007, India. & Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha- 61002, India. mahapatrasandip.1@gmail.com Author Roy, Sanmitra 0000-0002-9606-3668 Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha- 760007, India. sanmitraroy.89@gmail.com Author Seth, Jaya Kishor Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha- 760007, India. Author Tripathy, Basudev 0000-0002-7607-3279 Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Akurdi, Pune, Maharashtra- 411044, India. tripathyb@gmail.com Author Mohapatra, Anil 0000-0003-3547-7039 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha- 61002, India. anil2k7@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2025 2025-02-28 5594 2 325 340 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5594.2.5 journal article 308486 10.11646/zootaxa.5594.2.5 c9ae560d-1f0c-4c34-ac01-7d0f3241b3e6 1175-5326 14954398 E0774524-38DB-4F4D-B37A-A724733BD302

TABLE 3. Minimum and maximum divergence in percentage (Kimura two-parameter [K2P] distance) of Lobothorax bharat sp. nov. (present study) with its congeners and outgroup

	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
Abbreviations:S1, L. bharat sp. nov. (present study); S2, Lobothorax typus Bleeker, 1857; S3, Mothocya parvostis Bruce, 1986; S4, Mothocya renardi (Bleeker, 1857); S5, Catoessa gruneri Bowman & Tareen, 1983; Catoessa boscii (Bleeker, 1857); S7, Cymothoa frontalis H. Milne Edwards, 1840; S8, Cymothoa eremita (Brunnich, 1783); S9, Joryma hilsae Rameshkumar, Ravichandran & Trilles, 2011; S10, Ceratothoa verrucosa (Schioedte & Meinert, 1883); S11, Ceratothoa parallela (Otto, 1828); S12, Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena Koelbel, 1878; S13, Syscenus infelix Harger, 1880 as out-group.
S1	0.0
S2	2.5–2.6	0.0
S3	23.9	24.2	0.0
S4	25.8–26.0	25.7–26.4	11.2	0.0
S5	26.7–26.9	26.1–26.5	25.9	27.5	0.0
S6	27.3–27.4	26.7–27.1	25.9	27.5	0.0	0.0
S7	27.6–27.7	27.3–27.7	30.9	29.0	28.9	28.9	0.0
S8	27.7–28.2	27.4–28.3	30.2–31.2	29.7–29.8	28.5	29.0–29.1	5.7–5.9	0.0
S9	28.2–28.6	27.1–27.9	25.4	27.2	2.3	2.3	29.2	29.8–30.2	0.0
S10	26.3–26.9	28.7	29.3	30.4	32.6	32.9	25.9	26.7–28.1	33.9	0.0
S11	30.9–31.5	30.8–31.6	32.9	29.9	31.0–31.3	31.6–31.8	31.5	29.1–30.1	32.2–32.4	26.3	0.0
S12	31.9–32.2	32.4–33.0	33.3–33.9	33.0–33.3	33.9–34.1	34.2–34.5	27.8–28.1	27.3–27.6	34.3–34.4	29.6–29.8	27.3–28.7	0.0
S13	41.4–41.6	42.7–43.1	41.0	34.9	38.9	39.1	36.2	36.0–36.5	39.4	37.5	42.2–42.5	35.7–37.1	0.0