Echinoplectanum

Echinoplectanum
Echinoplectanum laeve
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Monopisthocotylea
Family: Diplectanidae
Genus: Echinoplectanum
Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1]

Echinoplectanum is a genus of Monopisthocotylean Monogeneans, belonging in the family Diplectanidae. All its species are parasites on the gills of fish; hosts recorded to date are all groupers (Family Serranidae), including coralgroupers (genus Plectropomus) and the Dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus). So far, species of Echinoplectanum have been recorded only from fish caught off Australia, New Caledonia and in the Mediterranean Sea. [1]

The type-species of the genus is Echinoplectanum laeve Justine & Euzet, 2006.[1]

Species

Species include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Justine, Jean-Lou; Euzet, Louis (2006). "Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on the gills of the coralgroupers Plectropomus laevis and P. leopardus (Perciformes, Serranidae) off New Caledonia, with the description of five new species and the erection of Echinoplectanum n. g.". Systematic Parasitology. 64 (3): 147–172. doi:10.1007/s11230-006-9028-8. ISSN 0165-5752.
  2. ↑ Euzet, L. & Oliver, G. 1965: Diplectanidae (Monogenea) de Téléostéens de la Méditerranée occidentale. II. Parasites d’Epinephelus gigas (Brünnich, 1768). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 40, 517-523.
  3. ↑ Young, P. C. (2009). "Some Monogenoideans of the Family Diplectanidae Bychowsky, 1957 from Australian Teleost Fishes". Journal of Helminthology. 43 (1-2): 223. doi:10.1017/S0022149X00004053. ISSN 0022-149X.

External Links

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