Acanthocotylidae

Acanthocotylidae is a family of monogenean fish skin parasites.

Acanthocotylidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Monogenea
Subclass:
Monopisthocotylea
Order:
Gyrodactylidea
Family:
Acanthocotylidae

Genera
Synonyms
  • Acanthocotylinae Monticelli, 1903
  • Allacanthocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963
  • Lophocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963
  • Pseudacanthocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963

References
  1. Per una nuova classificazione degli “Heterocotylea” FS Monticelli - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, 1903
  • North American monogenetic trematodes. II. The families Monocotylidae, Microbothriidae, Acanthocotylidae and Udonellidae (Capsaloidea). EW Price - Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1938
  • Myxinidocotyle gen. n. and Lophocotyle Braun (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Acanthocotylidae) with descriptions of three new species from hagfishes (Chordata …G MALMBERG, BO FERNHOLM - Zoologica Scripta, 1989


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