Octouncuhaptor

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Octouncuhaptor
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Octouncuhaptor

Mendoza-Franco, Roche & Torchin, 2008
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Octouncuhaptor is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans in the family Ancyrocephalidae. [1] [2]

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Etymology

The name of the genus is derived from the Latin words octo ("eight") and uncu ("hook"), and reflects the eight pairs of hooks on the haptor of the type species. [1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, there is a single species in the genus: [2]

This species is a parasite of the fish Eugerres brasilianus (Gerreidae) from Gatun Lake, Panama Canal Watershed. It has also been mentioned from the fish Eugerres plumieri in Mexico. [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mendoza Franco, E.F.; Roche, D.G.; Torchin, M.E. (2008). New species of Diplectanum (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae), and proposal of a new genus of the Dactylogyridae from the gills of gerreid fishes (Teleostei) from Mexico and Panama. Folia Parasitologica. 55: 171-179.
  2. 1 2 WoRMS (2018). Octouncuhaptor Mendoza-Franco, Roche & Torchin, 2008. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=717459 on 2018-12-21
  3. González-Solís D. & Sánchez-Ceballos L. D. 2012. — Metazoarios parásitos de la chihua, Eugerres plumieri (Perciformes, Gerreidae) en la Bahía de Chetumal y lagunas adyacentes, Quintana Roo, México, in Del Moral-Flores L. F., Martínez-Pérez J. A., Franco-López J., Ramírez-Villalobos A. J. & Tellomusi J. L. (eds), Investigación Ictiológica en México, Temas Selectos en honor del Dr José Luis Castro Aguirre. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala y Sociedad Ictiológica Mexicana, Mexico City: 75-87.
  4. Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit; García-Prieto, Luis; León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De (2017). "Checklist of the monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Mexican aquatic vertebrates". Zoosystema. 39 (4): 501–598. doi:10.5252/z2017n4a5. ISSN   1280-9551. S2CID   89974549.