Genitocotyle Explained

Genitocotyle is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. The species of Genitocotyle are endoparasitic in certain marine fishes.

Species

• Genitocotyle acirrus Park, 1937
• Genitocotyle atlantica Manter, 1947^[1]
• Genitocotyle cablei Nahhas & Short, 1965^[2]
• Genitocotyle heterostichi Montgomery, 1957^[3]
• Genitocotyle mediterranea Bartoli, Gibson & Riutort, 1994^[4]

Notes and References

1. Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist, 38, 257–416.
2. Nahhas, F. M. & Short, R. B. (1965). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Apalachee Bay, Gulf of Mexico. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 12, 39–50.
3. Montgomery, W. R. (1957). Studies on Digenetic Trematodes from Marine Fishes of La Jolla, California. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 76(1), 13–36.
4. Bartli, P., Gibson, D. & Riutort, J. (1994). Genitocotyle mediterranea n. sp. (Digenea, Opecoelidae) from Symphodus ocellatus (Teleostei, Labridae) in the western Mediterranean. Parasite, 1(4), 365–370.