Caballeraxine

Caballeraxine is a genus which belongs to the family Microcotylidae and class Monogenea.[1] As all Monogenea, species of Caballeraxine are ectoparasites that affect their host by attaching themselves as larvae on the gills of the fish and grow into adult stage. This larval stage is called oncomiracidium, and is characterized as free swimming and ciliated.

Caballeraxine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Subclass:	Polyopisthocotylea
Family:	Microcotylidae
Subfamily:	Microcotylinae
Genus:	Caballeraxine Lebedev, 1972

Members of the genus Caballeraxine are characterised by a single, unarmed vagina.[2]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species,[3] this genus includes one specie:

• Caballeraxine chainanica (Lebedev, Parukhin & Roitman, 1970) Lebedev, 1972 [1] previously included in Axinella as Axinella chainanica Lebedev, Parukhin & Roitman, 1970 [4]

References

1. Lebedev, B. I. 1972. Caballeraxine nom. nov., -a new name for Axinella Lebedev, Paruchin et Roitman, 1970 (Monogenoidea). [In Russian, Engl. sum.] Trudy Biologo-Pochvennogo Instituta n. s. (114) :154.
2. Yoon, Gil Ha; Al-Jufaili, Sarah; Freeman, Mark A; Bron, James E; Paladini, Giuseppe; Shinn, Andrew P (2013). "Omanicotyle heterospina n. gen. et n. comb. (Monogenea: Microcotylidae) from the gills of Argyrops spinifer (Forsskål) (Teleostei: Sparidae) from the Sea of Oman". Parasites & Vectors. 6 (1). doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-170. ISSN 1756-3305.
3. WoRMS (2019). Caballeraxine Lebedev, 1972. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=518920 on 2019-11-27
4. Lebedev, B. I., Parukhin, A. M., & Roitman, V. A. (1970). Oligonchoinea (Monogenoidea), parasites of horse mackerel in the North Vietnam Bay (Gulf of Tonkin). Biologiya Morya, Kiev, (20), 167-187.