Microcotyle tanago

Microcotyle tanago is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.[1]

Microcotyle tanago
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Mazocraeidea
Family: Microcotylidae
Genus: Microcotyle
Species:
M. tanago
Binomial name
Microcotyle tanago
Synonyms
  • Paramicrocotyle tanago (Yamaguti, 1940) Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1972[2]

Taxonomy

Microcotyle tanago was first described by Yamaguti in 1940 based on a single mature specimen.[1] Caballero y Caballero and Bravo-Hollis erected the genus Paramicrocotyle to describe Paramicrocotyle tampicensis and Paramicrocotyle atriobursata off Mexico, they placed within this genus 16 species previously assigned to the genus Microcotyle[3] including M. tanago.[2] It was returned to the genus Microcotyle by Mamaev who considered Paramicrocotyle a junior subjective synonym of Microcotyle.[4]

Hosts and localities
The type-host of Microcotyle tanago is Ditrema temminckii temminckii

The type-host of Microcotyle tanago is Ditrema temminckii temminckii (Embiotocidae). The type-locality is off Tarumi, Japan.[1]

References
  1. Yamaguti, S. (1940). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 31. Trematodes of fishes, VII. Japanese Journal of Zoology 9: 35–108, 2 pls.
  2. Caballero y Caballero, E., & Bravo-Hollis, M. (1972). Monogenea (van Beneden, 1858) Carus, 1863 de peces marinos del litoral Mexicano del Golfo de Mexico y del Mar Caribe.V. Revista de Biología Tropical, 20, 151–165. PDF
  3. Mendoza-Franco, Edgar F.; Rosado Tun, Mariela del Carmen; Duarte Anchevida, Allan de Jesús; del Rio Rodríguez, Rodolfo E. (2018). "Morphological and molecular (28S rRNA) data of monogeneans (Platyhelminthes) infecting the gill lamellae of marine fishes in the Campeche Bank, southwest Gulf of Mexico". ZooKeys. 783: 125–161. doi:10.3897/zookeys.783.26218. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6160863.
  4. Mamaev, Y. L. (1986). The taxonomical composition of the family Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879 (Monogenea). Folia Parasitologica, 33, 199–206. PDF
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