Octouncuhaptor

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Octouncuhaptor
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Octouncuhaptor

Mendoza-Franco, Roche & Torchin, 2008
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Octouncuhaptor is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans in the family Ancyrocephalidae.[1][2]

Etymology[edit]

The name of the genus is derived from the Latin words octo ("eight") and uncu ("hook"), and reflects the eight pairs of hooks on the haptor of the type species.[1]

Species[edit]

According to the World Register of Marine Species, there is a single species in the genus:[2]

  • Octouncuhaptor eugerrei Mendoza Franco, Roche & Torchin, 2008 [1]

This species is a parasite of the fish Eugerres brasilianus (Gerreidae) from Gatun Lake, Panama Canal Watershed. It has also been mentioned from the fish Eugerres plumieri in Mexico.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Mendoza Franco, E.F.; Roche, D.G.; Torchin, M.E. (2008). New species of Diplectanum (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae), and proposal of a new genus of the Dactylogyridae from the gills of gerreid fishes (Teleostei) from Mexico and Panama. Folia Parasitologica. 55: 171-179.
  2. ^ a b WoRMS (2018). Octouncuhaptor Mendoza-Franco, Roche & Torchin, 2008. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=717459 on 2018-12-21
  3. ^ González-Solís D. & Sánchez-Ceballos L. D. 2012. — Metazoarios parásitos de la chihua, Eugerres plumieri (Perciformes, Gerreidae) en la Bahía de Chetumal y lagunas adyacentes, Quintana Roo, México, in Del Moral-Flores L. F., Martínez-Pérez J. A., Franco-López J., Ramírez-Villalobos A. J. & Tellomusi J. L. (eds), Investigación Ictiológica en México, Temas Selectos en honor del Dr José Luis Castro Aguirre. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala y Sociedad Ictiológica Mexicana, Mexico City: 75-87.
  4. ^ Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit; García-Prieto, Luis; León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De (2017). "Checklist of the monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Mexican aquatic vertebrates". Zoosystema. 39 (4): 501–598. doi:10.5252/z2017n4a5. ISSN 1280-9551. S2CID 89974549.