Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879

Verma, A. K., Verma, J. & Agrawal, N., 2018, Redescription And New Host Record Of Diplostamenides Sciaenae (Monogenea, Microcotylidae) And Its Phylogenetic Status Using Molecular Markers, Vestnik Zoologii 52 (1), pp. 37-46 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.2478/vzoo-2018-0005
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scientific name	Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879
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Family Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879 View in CoL

Subfamily Microcotylinae Monticelli, 1892

Genus Diplostamenides Unnithan, 1971 View in CoL

Diplostamenides sciaenae ( Goto, 1894) Lebedev, Parukhin et Roitman, 1970 View in CoL

Type host: Johnius dussumieri (Cuvier, 1830) , unaccepted name Sciaena sina (Cuvier, 1830) .

Type locality: Mogi , Near Nagasaki, Japan .

Additional host: Johnius belangerii (Cuvier, 1830) (Sciaenidae) , common name ‘Belanger´s croaker´.

Additional locality: Versova dock landing centre, Mumbai, Arabian Sea region, India. Site of infection: Gills.

Infection details: Worms collected from 15 infected fishes, infection prevalence — 6 %, mean intensity — 5 ( Lebedev et al., 1970); a total of 85 worms collected from 19 infected fishes, examined fishes — 126, infection prevalence — 15.07 %, mean intensity — 4.47, relative density — 0.67 (present study).