Gastrocotylidae is a family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans.[2] All the species in this family are parasitic on fish.
| Gastrocotylidae | |
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| Gastrocotyle trachuri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Monogenea |
| Order: | Mazocraeidea |
| Family: | Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 [1] |
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Systematics
editThe gastrocotylids are known by their rather very diffuse distribution, and a marqued preference for scombroid fishes and carangids.[3]
The Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 was erected to separate Gastrocotyle and its allies.,[1] named and described by reference to a diagram of the clamp type alone[4] Sproston agreed on the importance of the difference in clamp structure in microcotylids, however, she reduced the Gastrocotylidae to sub-family status included in Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879.[5] Palombi did not recognize Sproston's subfamily Gastrocotylinae and placed it in the subfamily Microcotylinae Monticelli, 1892 then in his own family Arreptocotylidae Palombi, 1949.[6] This arrangement was refuted, and The Gastrocotylidae was brought back from the synonymy of Sproston in order to accommodate the subfamilies Gastrocotylinae Sproston, 1946 and Vallisiinae Price, 1943 and others which may later be adjudged similar.[4] Price's name was employed for the family as the latest was recognizable, and Gastrocotyle Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 was designated the type genus.[4] Dawes and Chauhan also considered earlier Gastrocotylidaeas a valid and useful family.[7][8] The latest valid genus included within this family is Allogastrocotyle Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984, erected by Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984 to accommodate Allogastrocotyle bivaginalis Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984, from the gills of Trachurus lathami off Venezuela.[9]
Subfamilies
editAccording to Lebedev (1986) [10] and the World Register of Marine Species,[2] the family includes 2 subfamilies:
- Gastrocotylinae Sproston, 1946 [5] including Pseudaxine.
- Gastrocotyloidinae Lebedev, 1984 [10]
References
edit- ^ a b Price, E. W. (1943). North American monogenetic trematodes: VI. The family Diclidophoridae (Diclidophoroidea). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 33(2), 44-54. PDF
- ^ a b WoRMS (2019). Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119243 on 2019-02-15
- ^ Pillai, S. (1968) Trematode Parasites of Fishes Monogenea from Kerala Coastal Fishes. Marine Biology Laboratory, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 1-367.
- ^ a b c Hargis, William J. (1957). "Monogenetic Trematodes of Gulf of Mexico Fishes. Part XIII. The Family Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 (Continued)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 76 (1): 1–12. doi:10.2307/3223916. ISSN 0003-0023. JSTOR 3223916.
- ^ a b Sproston, N. G. (1946). A synopsis of the monogenetic trematodes. The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 25(4), 185-600.
- ^ Palombi, A. (1949). I. Trematodi d'Italia: parte I. Trematodi Monogenetici. Rosenberg.
- ^ Dawes, B. (1947). The trematoda of British fishes. The Trematoda of British fishes. London: Ray Society. 364 pp.
- ^ Chauhan, B. S. (1953). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part I. Subclass Monogenea. Records of the Indian Museum, 51(2), 113-208.
- ^ Nasir, P. & Fuentes, J.L. (1983) Algunos trematodos monogeneticos Venezolanos. Revista de Parasitologia, 44, 335-380.
- ^ a b Lebedev, B.I. Monogenea: suborder Gastrocotylinea. Leningrad, USSR; Nauka (1986) 200pp.(In Russian)
