Genitocotyle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opecoelidae
Subfamily: Opecoelinae
Genus: Genitocotyle
Park, 1937[1]

Genitocotyle is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. The species of Genitocotyle are endoparasitic in certain marine fishes.

Species

  • Genitocotyle acirrus Park, 1937[1]
  • Genitocotyle atlantica Manter, 1947[2]
  • Genitocotyle cablei Nahhas & Short, 1965[3]
  • Genitocotyle heterostichi Montgomery, 1957[4]
  • Genitocotyle mediterranea Bartoli, Gibson & Riutort, 1994[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Park, J. T. (1937). A new trematode, Genitocotyle acirrus gen. nov., sp. nov. (Allocreadiidae), from Holconotus rhodoterus. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 56(1), 67–71.
  2. ↑ Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist, 38, 257–416.
  3. ↑ Nahhas, F. M. & Short, R. B. (1965). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Apalachee Bay, Gulf of Mexico. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 12, 39–50.
  4. ↑ Montgomery, W. R. (1957). Studies on Digenetic Trematodes from Marine Fishes of La Jolla, California. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 76(1), 13–36.
  5. ↑ Bartli, P., Gibson, D. & Riutort, J. (1994). Genitocotyle mediterranea n. sp. (Digenea, Opecoelidae) from Symphodus ocellatus (Teleostei, Labridae) in the western Mediterranean. Parasite, 1(4), 365–370.
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