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Title: Chromis With Hitchhiker, Cuba
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A blue chromis (Chromis cyanea) damselfish with a large parasytic isopod attached below its eye. There is debate about whether these isopods should be considered parasites or merely hickhikers. Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba. Caribbean Sea.
- blue chromis: Chromis cyanea
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- Caribbean Sea
- coral reef
- Cuba
- cymothoid isopod
- Damselfishes: Pomacentridae
- Fishes
- Gardens of the Queen
- Jardines de la Reina National Park
- Marine Life
- tropical
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