CALCEOSTOMATIDAE Parona & Perugia, 1890

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), pp. 501-598 : 504

Family CALCEOSTOMATIDAE Parona & Perugia, 1890

Paracalceostoma calceostomoides

Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959 ( Fig. 2D )

Paracalceostoma calceostomoides Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959: 173 .

HOSTS. — Actinopterygii (gills).

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Jalisco. Bahía de Banderas: Haemulon scudderii (Caballero & Bravo-Hollis 1959) ; Bahía de Chamela: Anisotremus interruptus , H. scudderii , Holocentridae gen. sp. (Pérez-Ponce de León et al. 1999)**.

Sonora. Bahía Kino: Balistes polylepis (Caballero & Bravo-Hollis 1962a) .

SPECIMENS IN COLLECTIONS. — CNHE (36, 88, 91, 3058-60) (H,P).

REMARK

The validity of the genus Paracalceostoma Caballero & Bravo- Hollis, 1959 was questioned by Euzet & Ktari (1973), who suggested their probable synonymy with Calceostoma .

Figures

FIG. 2. — Micrographs of some monogeneans representatives of the 29 families recorded in vertebrates of Mexico: A, Allodiscocotylidae: Hargicola oligoplites (Hargis, 1957) (CNHE 243); B, Allopyragraphoridae: Allopyragraphorus caballeroi (Zerecero, 1960) (CNHE 24); C, Axinidae: Axinoides raphidoma Hargis, 1956 (CNHE 3066); D, Calceostomatidae: Paracalceostoma calceostomoides Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959 (CNHE 36); E, Capsalidae: Sprostoniella lamothei Pérez- Ponce de León & Mendoza-Garfias, 2000 (CNHE 3616); F, Chauhaneidae: Cotyloatlantica pretiosa Bravo-Hollis, 1984 (CNHE 195). Scale bars: 200 µm.