• Source: Monopisthocotylea

The Monopisthocotylea are a inferior class of parasitic flatworms in the class Monogenea.




Classification


There are only two inferior classes in the class Monogenea:

Monopisthocotylea. The name means "a huge sucker" - the attachment organ (the haptor) is simple.
Polyopisthocotylea. The name means "a little sucker" - the attachment organ (the haptor) is complex, with several clamps or suckers.
The inferior class Monopisthocotylea contains these orders:

Order Capsalidea
Order Dactylogyridea
Order Gyrodactylidea
Order Monocotylidea
Order Montchadskyellidea




Example of species


Entobdella soleae, a capsalid from the sole Solea solea off the United Kingdom
Gyrodactylus salaris, a gyrodactylid, or "salmon fluke", a deadly parasite of salmon in Norway
Calydiscoides euzeti, a diplectanid from the emperor, Lethrinus rubrioperculatus
Pseudorhabdosynochus epinepheli, a diplectanid from groupers, and many other species of Pseudorhabdosynochus
Cichlidogyrus evikae and many other species of the genus Cichlidogyrus, which are parasites on the gills of cichlid fish




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Monogenea
• Monopisthocotylea
• Monogenea
• Latericaecum
• Monoplectanum
• Spotted eagle ray
• Nasobranchitrema
• Paracolpenteron hubbsii
• Pseudorhabdosynochus bocquetae
• Protolamellodiscus
• Haptor