Plectanocotylidae

Plectanocotylidae is a family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans.[1][2] All the species in this family are parasitic on the gills of marine fish.

Plectanocotylidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Mazocraeidea
Family: Plectanocotylidae
Monticelli, 1903

Genera

According to the World Register of Marine Species,[2] as of December 2018 the family includes these genera:

  • Adenicola Mamaev & Parukhin, 1972 [3]
  • Euzetplectanocotyle Mamaev & Tkachuk, 1979 [4]
  • Inversocotyle Mamaev & Parukhin, 1972 [5]
  • Octoplectanocotyla Yamaguti, 1937 [6]
  • Peristedionelia Mamaev & Parukhin, 1972 [3]
  • Plectanocotyle Diesing, 1850 including Plectanocotyle gurnardi and Plectanocotyle major [7]
  • Plectanocotyloides Euzet & Suriano, 1974 [8]
  • Triglicola Mamaev & Parukhin, 1972 [5]
  • Triglicoloides Mamaev & Parukhin, 1972 [5]

References
  1. Monticelli, F.C. (1903) Per una nuova classificazione degli “Heterocotylea”. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, 14, 334–336.
  2. WoRMS (2018). Plectanocotylidae Monticelli, 1903. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119249 on 2018-12-29
  3. Mamaev, Yu. L., & Parukhin, A. M. (1972). [New subfamily Adenicolinae subfam. n. (Monogenoidea, Plectanocotylidae)] (English title: A new subfamily Adenicolinae Subfam. n. (Monogenoidea: Plectanocotylidae)). Parazitologiia, 6(6), 259-268. [in Russian]
  4. Mamaev, Y. L., & Tkachuk, L. P. (1979). Euzetplectanocotyle hoplosteti gen. et sp. nov., a new monogenean representative of the family Plectanocotylidae (Monogenea). Biologiya Morya, 72-75.
  5. Mamaev, Y. L., & Parukhin, A. M. (1972). [New Monogenea of the family Plectanocotylidae Poche] (English title: Monogeneans of the family Plectanocotylidae Poche, 1926, new representative of the subfamily Plectanocotylinae). Parazitologiia, 6(1), 65-74. [in Russian]
  6. Yamaguti, S. (1937). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 19. Fourteen new ectoparasitic trematodes of fishes: Printed by the author.
  7. Boudaya, Lobna; Neifar, Lassad; Euzet, Louis (2006). "Plectanocotyle major sp. n. (Monogenea: Plectanocotylidae), a gill parasite of Chelidonichthys obscurus (Teleostei: Triglidae) from the Mediterranean Sea". Folia Parasitologica. 53 (1): 53–56. doi:10.14411/fp.2006.004. ISSN 0015-5683. PMID 16696431.
  8. Euzet, L., & Suriano, D. M. (1973). Plectanocotyloides obscurum n. g., n. sp. (Monogenea) parasite branchial d’Aspitrigla obscura (Téléostéen) en Méditerranée. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3e série, Zoologie, 137, 807-813. PDF in BioNames


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