Paradiplectanum
Appearance
Paradiplectanum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Monogenea |
Order: | Dactylogyridea |
Family: | Diplectanidae |
Genus: | Paradiplectanum Domingues & Boeger, 2008 |
Species | |
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Paradiplectanum is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans in the family Diplectanidae.[1][2] All its species are parasites on marine perciform fishes of the family Sillaginidae.
Species
[edit]According to the World Register of Marine Species,[1] there are only two species in the genus:
- Paradiplectanum blairense (Gupta & Khanna, 1974) Domingues & Boeger, 2008 [3]
- Paradiplectanum sillagonum (Tripathi, 1959) Domingues & Boeger, 2008 [4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b WoRMS (2018). Paradiplectanum Domingues & Boeger, 2008. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517974 on 2018-12-23
- ^ Domingues, M. V.; Boeger, W. A. (2008). Phylogeny and revision of Diplectanidae Monticelli, 1903 (Platyhelminthes: Monogenoidea). Zootaxa. 1698: 1-40.
- ^ Gupta, N.K. & Khanna, M. (1974) On some of the monogenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Port-Blair (Andanam and Nicobar Islands, India) Part 1. Revista Iberica de Parasitologia, 34: 257–272.
- ^ Tripathi, Y.R. (1959) Monogenetic Trematodes from fishes of India. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 9, 1–149.