Microcotylinae

Microcotylinae
Microcotyle donavini
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Order:	Mazocraeidea
Family:	Microcotylidae
Subfamily:	Microcotylinae Taschenberg, 1879

Microcotylinae is a subfamily within family Microcotylidae and class Monogenea. This subfamily was created by Taschenberg in 1879. ^[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, ^[2] there are 29 genera in this subfamily:

• Atriostella Unnithan, 1971 ^[3]
• Bivagina Yamaguti, 1963 ^[1]
• Caballeraxine Lebedev, 1972
• Diplasiocotyle Sandars, 1944 ^[4]
• Diplostamenides Unnithan, 1971 ^[3]
• Gamacallum Unnithan, 1971 ^[3]
• Jaliscia Mamaev & Egorova, 1977
• Kahawaia Lebedev, 1969
• Lutianicola Lebedev, 1970
• Magniexcipula Bravo-Hollis, 1981
• Microcotyle Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 ^[5]
• Microcotyloides Fujii, 1940
• Monomacracanthus Mamaev, 1976
• Neobivagina Dillon & Hargis, 1965> ^[6]
• Omanicotyle Yoon, Al-Jufaili, Freeman, Bron, Paladini & Shinn, 2013
• Paracaesicola Zhou, Li, Liu, Ding & Yuan, 2020 ^[7]

• Paramicrocotyloides Rohde, 1978
• Paranaella Kohn, Baptista-Farias & Cohen, 2000
• Pauciconfibula Dillon & Hargis, 1965 ^[6]
• Polymicrocotyle Lamothe-Argumedo, 1967
• Polynemicola Unnithan, 1971
• Pseudoaspinatrium Mamaev, 1986
• Pseudobivagina Mamaev, 1986
• Pseudoneobivagina Mamaev, 1986
• Sciaenacotyle Mamaev, 1989 ^[8]
• Sebasticotyle Mamaev & Egorova, 1977
• Solostamenides Unnithan, 1971 ^[3]
• Vulvostella Unnithan, 1971 ^[3]
• Yogendrotrema Kumar & Agarwal, 1983

References

1. Yamaguti S. 1963. Systema Helminthum Volume IV Monogenea and Aspidocotylea. Interscience, a division of John Wiley & Sons, New York & London, 699 pp.
2. WoRMS (2019). Microcotylinae Taschenberg, 1879. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1307054 on 2020-05-22
3. Unnithan, R. V. (1971). On the functional morphology of a new fauna of Monogenoidea on fishes from Trivandrum and environs. Part IV. Microcotylidae sensu stricto and its repartition into subsidiary taxa. American Midland Naturalist, 366-398.
4. Sandars, D. F. (1944). A contribution to the knowledge of the Microcotylidae of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 68(1), 67-81. PDF in BHL
5. Van Beneden, P. J., & Hesse, C. E. (1863). Recherches sur les Bdellodes (Hirudinées) et les trématodes marins: Mémoire présenté à l'Académie Royale de Belgique. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 34, 1-150 + Plates.
6. Dillon, W. A., & Hargis, W. J. (1965). Monogenetic trematodes from the southern Pacific Ocean. 2. Polyopisthocotyleids from New Zealand fishes: the families Discocotylidae, Microcotylidae, Axinidae and Gastrocotylidae. Antarctic Research Series, 5, 251-280.
7. Zhou, Zi-Hua; Li, You-Zhi; Liu, Lin; Ding, Xue-Juan; Yuan, Kai (2020). "Paracaesicola nanshaensis n. gen., n. sp. (Monogenea, Microcotylidae) a gill parasite of Paracaesio sordida (Teleostei, Lutjanidae) from the South China Sea". Parasite. 27: 33. doi:10.1051/parasite/2020031. ISSN   1776-1042. PMC   7227370 . PMID   32410725.
8. Mamaev, Yu.L. (1989) [On species composition and morphological features of the Microcotyle genus (Microcotylidae, Monogenoidea)]. In: Lebedev, B.I. (Ed.) [Investigation in parasitology, collection of papers]. Vladivostok: DVNTs SSSR, 167 pp. (In Russian)