Diplectanum

{{Short description|Genus of worms}}

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| image_alt = Illustration of "Diplectanum aequans"

| image_caption = Illustration of Diplectanum aequans

| taxon = Diplectanum

| authority = Diesing, 1858

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Diplectanum is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans in the family Diplectanidae. The genus, created by Karl Moriz Diesing,Diesing, K. M. 1858. Revision der Myzhelminthen. Abtheilung: Trematoden. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Wien :K.-K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei in Commission bei Karl Gerold's Sohn. pp. 307-390 [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6776 Biodiversity Heritage Library] {{open access}} gave its name to the family Diplectanidae. All its species are parasites of the gill lamellae of teleosts.{{cite thesis|first1=Guy|last1=Oliver|title=Les Diplectanidae Bychowsky, 1957 (Monogenea, Monopisthocotylea, Dactylogyridea). Systématique. Biologie. Ontogénie. Écologie. Essai de phylogenèse.|year=2015 |publisher=Figshare |doi=10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.1295274|type=thesis |doi-access=free}}

The type-species of the genus is Diplectanum aequans (Wagener, 1857).Wagener, G. (1857). Helminthologische Bemerkungen aus einem Sandsschreibe an C. Th. V. Siebold. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 9, 73-90. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/9197 Biodiversity Heritage Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414094155/http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/9197 |date=2016-04-14 }} {{open access}}