A Taxonomic Review of the Buccal-attaching Fish Parasite genus Bleeker, 1857 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) with Description of a New Species from Southwestern India.

The genus Bleeker, 1857 is revised with the description of a new species collected from the gempylidaen fish (Cuvier, 1832) from the southwestern coast of India. A revised generic diagnosis is provided based on the redescription of the type species. (Schioedte and Meinert, 1883) is here synonymised with Bleeker, 1857 based on the original description.