Microcotylidae Explained

Microcotylidae is a family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans.^[1] All the species in this family are parasitic on fish.

Subfamilies

According to the World Register of Marine Species,^[1] the family includes 7 subfamilies:

• Anchoromicrocotylinae Bravo-Hollis, 1981 ^[2]
• Atriasterinae Maillard & Noisy, 1979 ^[3] including Sparicotyle chrysophrii
• Metamicrocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963 ^[4]
• Microcotylinae Taschenberg, 1879 including Microcotyle with many species.
• Prosomicrocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963
• Prostatomicrocotylinae Yamaguti, 1968 ^[5]
• Syncoelicotylinae Mamaev & Zubchenko, 1978 ^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2018). Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119247 on 2018-12-03
2. Bravo-Hollis, M. (1981). Helmintos de peces del Pacífico mexicano XXXVI. Sobre un género y subfamilia nuevos de la familia Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879. Emend. Anales del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 8, 305-314
3. Maillard, C., & Noisy, D. (1979). Atrispinum acarne n g n sp.(Monogenea, Microcotylidae) parasite de Pagellus acarne (Teleostei) du golfe du Lion. Vie et Milieu, 28(29), 4.
4. Yamaguti S. 1963. Systema Helminthum Volume IV Monogenea and Aspidocotylea. Interscience, a division of John Wiley & Sons, New York & London, 699 pp.>
5. Yamaguti, S. (1968). Monogenetic trematodes of Hawaiian fishes. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 287 pp.
6. Mamaev, Yu. L., & Zubchenko, A. V. 1978. [Мамаев Ю. Л., Зубченко А. В. Два новых рода высших моногеней из Северной Атлантики. Зоол. журн. 1978. Т. 57, вып. 8. С. 1131 — 1139.] Two new genera of higher monogeneans from the North Atlantic. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 57, 1131-1139. [in Russian]
7. Mamaev, Yu. L., & Brashovian, P. P. (1989). [Ю. л. Мамаев, П. П. Брашовян, ''Syncoelicotyloides macruri'' gen . ет sp . n. — первый представитель подсемейств а Syncoelicotylinae (Microcotylidae, Monogenea) от макрурусовых рыб] Syncoelicotyloides macruri gen. et sp. n. the first representative of the subfamily Syncoelidotylinae (Microcotylidae, Monogenea) from macruriform fishes. Parazitologiia, 23(6), 532-536. [in Russian] PDF