Polyclithrum Explained

Polyclithrum is a genus of monogeneans in the family Gyrodactylidae.

Species

• Polyclithrum alberti Ernst, Whittington & Jones, 2000^[1]
• Polyclithrum boegeri Ernst, Whittington & Jones, 2000^[1]
• Polyclithrum corallense Ernst, Whittington & Jones, 2000^[1]
• Polyclithrum gerasevi Gaevskaya & Dmitrieva, 1997^[2]
• Polyclithrum mugilini Rogers, 1967
• Polyclithrum ponticum Gerasev, Dmitrieva & Gaevskaya, 2002^[3]
• Polyclithrum rodgersi Dmitrieva, Gerasev, Gibson, Pronkina & Galli, 2012^[4]

Notes and References

1. Ernst, I., Jones, M. & Whittington, I. (2001). A new genus of viviparous gyrodactylid (Monogenea) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia with descriptions of seven new species. Journal of Natural History, 35(3), 313–340.
2. Gaevskaya, A. V. & Dmitrieva, E. V. (1997). Overview of Black Sea monogenean fauna. Ecologiya Morya, 46, 7–17.
3. Gerasev, P. I., Dmitrieva, E. V. & Gaevskaya, A. V. (2002). Polyclithrum ponticum sp. n. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae: Polyclithrinae) from Mugil cephalus from the Black Sea and problems of suprageneric systematics of the gyrodactylids. Parazitologya, 36(5), 396–404.
4. Dmitrieva, E., Gerasev, P., Gibson, D., Pronkina, N. & Galli, P. (2012). Descriptions of eight new species of Ligophorus Euzet & Suriano, 1977 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from Red Sea mullets. Systematic Parasitology, 81(3), 203–237.