Gastrocotylinae

{{Short description|Family of worms}}

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Gastrocotylinae is a sub-family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans. All the species in this family are parasitic on fish.

Genera

According to the Lebedev (1986) Lebedev, B.I. Monogenea: suborder Gastrocotylinea. Leningrad, USSR; Nauka (1986) 200pp.(In Russian) the sub-family includes 17 valid genera:

  • Allogastrocotyle Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984 Nasir, P. & Fuentes, J.L. (1983) Algunos trematodos monogeneticos Venezolanos. Revista de Parasitologia, 44, 335-380.
  • Amphipolycotyle Hargis, 1957 {{cite journal|last1=Hargis|first1=William J.|title=Monogenetic Trematodes of Gulf of Mexico Fishes. Part XIII. The Family Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 (Continued)|journal=Transactions of the American Microscopical Society|volume=76|issue=1|year=1957|pages=1–12|issn=0003-0023|doi=10.2307/3223916|jstor=3223916}}
  • Areotestis Yamaguti, 1965 Yamaguti, S. (1965) New Monogenetic trematodes from Hawaiian fishes, I. Pacific Science, 19, 55–95. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190306234910/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/26dd/57472cc33db6f0869708487ab65ba93901f6.pdf PDF] {{open access}}
  • Churavera Unnithan, 1968 {{cite journal|last1=Unnithan|first1=R. Viswanathan|title=On the functional morphology of a new fauna of Monogenoidea on fishes from Trivandrum and environs Part II. Opisthogynidae fam.nov. (Gastrocotyloidea) and Abortipedinae subfam.nov. (Protomicrocotyloidea)|journal=Parasitology|volume=52|issue=3–4|year=1968|pages=315–351|issn=0031-1820|doi=10.1017/S0031182000027190}}
  • Cypselurobranchitrema Yamaguti, 1966Yamaguti, S. (1966). New monogenetic trematodes from Hawaiian fishes, II. Pacific Science, 20(4), 419-434.
  • Engraulicola George, 1960 George, K. C. (1960). On a new gastrocotylid trematode, Engraulicola forcipopenis gen. Et sp. Nov. On white-bait, from southern India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 2(2), 208-215. [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dc12/58d7418c72299330c7dacbb9a3623c92c6c2.pdf PDF] {{open access}}
  • Engrauliphila Unnithan, 1967
  • Engrauliscobina Unnithan, 1967
  • Engraulixenus Unnithan, 1967 Unnithan, R.V. (1967). On some gastrocotyline (monogenoidean) parasites of Indian clupeoid fishes, including three new genera. Pacific Science 21, 210–229 (1967)
  • Eyelavera Unnithan, 1968
  • Gastrocotyle Beneden & Hesse, 1863 Van Beneden, P. J., & Hesse, C. E. (1863). Recherches sur les Bdellodes (Hirudinées) et les trématodes marins: Mémoire présenté à l'Académie Royale de Belgique. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 34, 1-150 + Plates.
  • Irinaxine Ghichenok, 1980 Gichenok, LA. (1980). Description of two new genera of monogeneans, with a discussion of homology of the clamp parts in the family Gastrocotylinae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 593: 349-357, 1980.
  • Pellonicola Unnithan, 1967
  • Pseudaxine Parona & Perugia, 1890 Parona, C. & Perugia, A. (1889) Intorno ad alcune Polystomeae. Atti della Societa Ligustica, 1, 225-242.
  • Pseudaxinoides Lebedev, 1968 Lebedev, B.I. (1968) Monogenea from fishes of the New Zealand Australian shelf and the South China Sea (Monogenoidea: Gastrocotylidae, Gastrocotylinae). In: Mamaev, Yu.L., Helminths of animals of the Pacific Ocean. Nauka: Moscow, 46-55.
  • Quadrivalvula Ghichenok, 1980
  • Sibitrema Yamaguti, 1966

References