Protocotyle

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

See text.

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

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

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:

References

  1. ↑ Cerfontaine, Paul. 1899: Contribution à l'étude des Octocotylidés. V. Les Onchocotylinae. Archives de Biologie, 16, 345-478 + Plates 18-21.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ Maillard, C. & Oliver, G. 1966: Monogenea, Hexabothriidae. Vie et Milieu Série A: Biologie marine, 17, 1201-1216.
  4. ↑ 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.
External identifiers for Protocotyle
Encyclopedia of Life 2959358
WoRMS 119363
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