Lethacotyle

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Lethacotyle
Journal.pone.0079155.g002 cropped Lethacotyle fijiensis Manter & Prince, 1953, holotype body.tiff
Holotype of Lethacotyle fijiensis Manter & Prince, 1953 [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Mazocraeidea
Family: Protomicrocotylidae
Genus: Lethacotyle
Manter & Price, 1953
Species

Lethacotyle is a genus of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans, included in the family Protomicrocotylidae.
The genus includes only two species: Lethacotyle fijiensis Manter & Price, 1953 [2] , the type-species of the genus, and Lethacotyle vera Justine, Rahmouni, Gey, Schoelinck, & Hoberg, 2013 . [1] Both species are parasitic on the gills of jacks in the Pacific Ocean. [1] [2] [3] [4] They are known only from three localities: off Fiji, [2] Andaman Islands, [3] [4] and New Caledonia. [1]
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. [5] [6] This is reflected in the etymology of the name, which, according to Manter & Price [2] is "from letha = forgetting, and cotyle = cup, and refers to the absence of clamps".

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Justine J-L, Rahmouni C, Gey D, Schoelinck C, Hoberg EP (2013). "The Monogenean which lost its clamps". PLOS ONE. 8 (11) e79155. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079155 . PMC   3838368 . PMID   24278118.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Manter, H. W. & Price, D. F. 1953: Some Monogenetic Trematodes of marine fishes from Fiji. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 20, 105-112.
  3. 1 2 Ramalingam, K. 1966: A rare record of Lethacotyle (Monogenea), its post-oncomiracidial larva with observation on distribution. Current Science, 35, 101-102 PDF.
  4. 1 2 Ramalingam, K. 1968: A redescription of Lethacotyle (Monogenea) and its post-oncomiracidial larva. Journal of the Madras University B, 35-36, 107-114.
  5. ↑ Bychowsky, B. E. (1961). Monogenetic Trematodes their systematics and phylogeny. English translation edited by W. J. Hargis Jr. Washington: American Institute of Biological Sciences Archive.org.
  6. ↑ Hayward, C. (2005). Monogenea Polyopisthocotylea (ectoparasitic flukes). In K. Rohde (Ed.), Marine Parasitology (pp. 55-63): CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia & CABI, Oxon, UK.
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