Gastrocotylidae

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Gastrocotylidae
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Gastrocotyle trachuri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Mazocraeidea
Family: Gastrocotylidae
Price, 1943 [1]
Subfamilies

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Gastrocotylidae is a family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans. [2] All the species in this family are parasitic on fish.

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Systematics

The gastrocotylids are known by their rather very diffuse distribution, and a marqued preference for scombroid fishes and carangids. [3]

The Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 was erected to separate Gastrocotyle and its allies., [1] named and described by reference to a diagram of the clamp type alone [4] Sproston agreed on the importance of the difference in clamp structure in microcotylids, however, she reduced the Gastrocotylidae to sub-family status included in Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879. [5] Palombi did not recognize Sproston's subfamily Gastrocotylinae and placed it in the subfamily Microcotylinae Monticelli, 1892 then in his own family Arreptocotylidae Palombi, 1949. [6] This arrangement was refuted, and The Gastrocotylidae was brought back from the synonymy of Sproston in order to accommodate the subfamilies Gastrocotylinae Sproston, 1946 and Vallisiinae Price, 1943 and others which may later be adjudged similar. [4] Price's name was employed for the family as the latest was recognizable, and Gastrocotyle Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 was designated the type genus. [4] Dawes and Chauhan also considered earlier Gastrocotylidaeas a valid and useful family. [7] [8] The latest valid genus included within this family is Allogastrocotyle Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984, erected by Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984 to accommodate Allogastrocotyle bivaginalis Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984, from the gills of Trachurus lathami off Venezuela. [9]

Subfamilies

According to Lebedev (1986) [10] and the World Register of Marine Species, [2] the family includes 2 subfamilies:

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<i>Microcotyle</i> Genus of flatworms

Microcotyle is a genus which belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes and class Monogenea. Species of Microcotyle are ectoparasites that affect their host by attaching themselves as larvae on the gills of the fish and grow into adult stage. This larval stage is called oncomiracidium, and is characterized as free swimming and ciliated.

Protomicrocotylidae Family of flatworms

Protomicrocotylidae is a family of monogenean parasites in the order Mazocraeidea.

Lethacotyle is a genus of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans, included in the family Protomicrocotylidae.
The genus includes only two species: Lethacotyle fijiensisManter & Price, 1953 , the type-species of the genus, and Lethacotyle veraJustine, Rahmouni, Gey, Schoelinck, & Hoberg, 2013 . Both species are parasitic on the gills of jacks in the Pacific Ocean. They are known only from three localities: off Fiji, Andaman Islands, and New Caledonia.
The genus Lethacotyle is special in that its members have no clamps on their posterior attachment organ or haptor, in contrast to most polyopisthocotylean Monogenean which have clamps. This is reflected in the etymology of the name, which, according to Manter & Price is "from letha = forgetting, and cotyle = cup, and refers to the absence of clamps".

Diplectanidae Family of flatworms

The Diplectanidae are a family of monopisthocotylean monogeneans. They are all parasitic on the gills of fish. Diplectanids are small animals, generally around 1 mm in length. As parasites, they can be extremely numerous, up to several thousand on an individual fish.

Aspidogastridae is a family of trematodes in the order Aspidogastrida.

Microcotyle poronoti is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.

Microcotyle longirostri is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.

Microcotyle nemadactylus is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.

Rhamnocercus is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans in the family Diplectanidae. All species of Rhamnocercus are parasites of marine perciform fishes of the family Sciaenidae.

<i>Pseudaxine</i> Genus of flatworms

Pseudaxine is a genus which belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes and class Monogenea; all its species are parasites of fish.

<i>Pseudaxine trachuri</i> Species of worms

Pseudaxine trachuri is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Gastrocotylidae.

Pseudaxine indicana is a species of monogenean flatworm, which is parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Gastrocotylidae.

Pseudaxine bivaginalis is a species of monogenean flatworm, which is parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Gastrocotylidae.

Gastrocotylinae is a sub-family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans. All the species in this family are parasitic on fish.

<i>Sibitrema</i> Genus of flatworms

Sibitrema is a genus which belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes and class Monogenea; the only species included in this genus is parasite of fish.

<i>Allogastrocotyle</i> Genus of flatworms

Allogastrocotyle is a genus within the phylum Platyhelminthes and class Monogenea. The only species in this genus is parasitic upon fish.

<i>Allogastrocotyle bivaginalis</i> Species of worms

Allogastrocotyle bivaginalis is a species of monogenean flatworm, which is parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Gastrocotylidae.

<i>Allopseudaxine</i> Genus of flatworms

Allopseudaxine is a genus which belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes and class Monogenea; all its species are parasites of fish.

<i>Microcotylinae</i> Subfamily of flatworms

Microcotylinae is a subfamily within family Microcotylidae and class Monogenea. This subfamily was created by Taschenberg in 1879.

References

  1. 1 2 Price, E. W. (1943). North American monogenetic trematodes: VI. The family Diclidophoridae (Diclidophoroidea). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 33(2), 44-54. PDF Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. 1 2 WoRMS (2019). Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119243 on 2019-02-15
  3. ↑ Pillai, S. (1968) Trematode Parasites of Fishes Monogenea from Kerala Coastal Fishes. Marine Biology Laboratory, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 1-367.
  4. 1 2 3 Hargis, William J. (1957). "Monogenetic Trematodes of Gulf of Mexico Fishes. Part XIII. The Family Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 (Continued)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 76 (1): 1. doi:10.2307/3223916. ISSN   0003-0023.
  5. 1 2 Sproston, N. G. (1946). A synopsis of the monogenetic trematodes. The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 25(4), 185-600.
  6. ↑ Palombi, A. (1949). I. Trematodi d'Italia: parte I. Trematodi Monogenetici. Rosenberg.
  7. ↑ Dawes, B. (1947). The trematoda of British fishes. The Trematoda of British fishes. London: Ray Society. 364 pp.
  8. ↑ Chauhan, B. S. (1953). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part I. Subclass Monogenea. Records of the Indian Museum, 51(2), 113-208.
  9. ↑ Nasir, P. & Fuentes, J.L. (1983) Algunos trematodos monogeneticos Venezolanos. Revista de Parasitologia, 44, 335-380.
  10. 1 2 Lebedev, B.I. Monogenea: suborder Gastrocotylinea. Leningrad, USSR; Nauka (1986) 200pp.(In Russian)
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