Potamotrygonocotyle Explained

Potamotrygonocotyle is a genus of monogeneans that parasitise stingrays of the genus Potamotrygon. From 1981 the genus contained only one member, Potamotrygonocotyle tsalickisi, until four new species were described in 2007.

Species

• Potamotrygonocotyle chisholmae Domingues & Marques, 2007
• Potamotrygonocotyle dromedarius Domingues & Marques, 2007
• Potamotrygonocotyle eurypotamoxenus Domingues & Marques, 2007
• Potamotrygonocotyle tsalickisi Mayes, Brooks & Thorson, 1981
• Potamotrygonocotyle uruguayensis Domingues & Marques, 2007

References

• Domingues, Marcus V. . Fernando P. L. Maques . amp . 2007 . Revision of Potamotrygonocotyle Mayes, Brooks & Thorson, 1981 (Platyhelminthes: Monogenoidea: Monocotylidae), with descriptions of four new species from the gills of freshwater stingrays Potamotrygon spp. (Rajiformes: Potamotrygonidae) from the La Plata river basin . Systematic Parasitology . 67 . 3 . 157–174 . 10.1007/s11230-006-9086-y . 17464482.
• Mayes, M. A. . D. R. Brooks . T. B. Thorson . amp . 1981 . Potamotrygonocotyle tsalickisi, new genus and species (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) and Paraheteronchocotyle amazonensis, new genus and species (Monogenea: Hexabothriidae) from Potamotrygon circularis Garman (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) in north western Brazil . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 94 . 1205–1210.