Protocotyle

Protocotyle
	Protocotyle euzetmaillardi Justine, 2011
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Order:	Diclybothriidea
Family:	Hexabothriidae
Genus:	Protocotyle ; Euzet & Maillard, 1974
Type species
	Protocotyle taschenbergi; (Maillard & Oliver,1966) Euzet & Maillard, 1974
Species
	See text.

Protocotyle is a genus of monogeneans in the family Hexabothriidae. The genus was created by Louis Euzet and Claude Maillard in 1974.

Sixgill sharks, such as Hexanchus nakamurai here, are hosts of species of Protocotyle

Protocotyle includes only three species, which are all parasitic on the gills of sharks of the genus Hexanchus, namely Hexanchus griseus and Hexanchus nakamurai. The species are:

Protocotyle grisea (Cerfontaine, 1899) Euzet & Maillard, 1974 [1][2]
Protocotyle taschenbergi (Maillard & Oliver,1966) Euzet & Maillard, 1974 [2][3]
Protocotyle euzetmaillardi Justine, 2011 [4]

References

Cerfontaine, Paul. 1899: Contribution à l'étude des Octocotylidés. V. Les Onchocotylinae. Archives de Biologie, 16, 345-478 + Plates 18-21.
Euzet, L. & Maillard, C. 1974: Les Monogènes Hexabothriidae Price, 1942. Historique, systématique, phylogenèse. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3° série, 206, Zoologie 136, 113-141.
Maillard, C. & Oliver, G. 1966: Monogenea, Hexabothriidae. Vie et Milieu Série A: Biologie marine, 17, 1201-1216.
Justine, Jean-Lou (Jan 2011). "Protocotyle euzetmaillardi n. sp. (Monogenea: Hexabothriidae) from the bigeye sixgill shark Hexanchus nakamurai Teng (Elasmobranchii: Hexanchidae) off New Caledonia". Systematic Parasitology. 78 (1): 41–55. doi:10.1007/s11230-010-9275-6. PMID 21161490.

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