Gastrocotylinae Explained

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

Genera

According to the Lebedev (1986) ^[1] the sub-family includes 17 valid genera:

• Allogastrocotyle Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984 ^[2]
• Amphipolycotyle Hargis, 1957 ^[3]
• Areotestis Yamaguti, 1965 ^[4]
• Churavera Unnithan, 1968 ^[5]
• Cypselurobranchitrema Yamaguti, 1966^[6]
• Engraulicola George, 1960 ^[7]
• Engrauliphila Unnithan, 1967
• Engrauliscobina Unnithan, 1967
• Engraulixenus Unnithan, 1967 ^[8]
• Eyelavera Unnithan, 1968 ^[5]
• Gastrocotyle Beneden & Hesse, 1863 ^[9]
• Irinaxine Ghichenok, 1980 ^[10]
• Pellonicola Unnithan, 1967 ^[8]
• Pseudaxine Parona & Perugia, 1890 ^[11]
• Pseudaxinoides Lebedev, 1968 ^[12]
• Quadrivalvula Ghichenok, 1980 ^[10]
• Sibitrema Yamaguti, 1966 ^[6]

Notes and References

1. Lebedev, B.I. Monogenea: suborder Gastrocotylinea. Leningrad, USSR; Nauka (1986) 200pp.(In Russian)
2. Nasir, P. & Fuentes, J.L. (1983) Algunos trematodos monogeneticos Venezolanos. Revista de Parasitologia, 44, 335-380.
3. Hargis. William J.. Monogenetic Trematodes of Gulf of Mexico Fishes. Part XIII. The Family Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 (Continued). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 76. 1. 1957. 1–12. 0003-0023. 10.2307/3223916. 3223916.
4. Yamaguti, S. (1965) New Monogenetic trematodes from Hawaiian fishes, I. Pacific Science, 19, 55–95. PDF
5. Unnithan. R. Viswanathan. 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). Parasitology. 52. 3–4. 1968. 315–351. 0031-1820. 10.1017/S0031182000027190.
6. Yamaguti, S. (1966). New monogenetic trematodes from Hawaiian fishes, II. Pacific Science, 20(4), 419-434.
7. 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. PDF
8. Unnithan, R.V. (1967). On some gastrocotyline (monogenoidean) parasites of Indian clupeoid fishes, including three new genera. Pacific Science 21, 210–229 (1967)
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Parona, C. & Perugia, A. (1889) Intorno ad alcune Polystomeae. Atti della Societa Ligustica, 1, 225-242.
12. 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.