Genitocotyle

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

Genitocotyle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opecoelidae
Subfamily: Opecoelinae
Genus: Genitocotyle
Park, 1937[1]

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. 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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