Mexicana (genus)
Mexicana is a genus of monogeneans belonging to the family Ancyrocephalidae.[2] All members of the genus are parasitic on fish.[3]
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| Genus: | Mexicana Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959 [1] |
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Species
The following species are considered valid according to WorRMS: [2]
- Mexicana anisotremum Cezar, Paschoal & Luque, 2012
- Mexicana atlantica Luque, Amato & Takemoto, 1992
- Mexicana bychowskyi Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959 [1]
- Mexicana iannaconi Chero, Cruces, Sáez & Alvariño, 2014 [4]
- Mexicana littoralis Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959
For the distribution of Mexicana bychowskyi, see Mendoza-Garfias et al. (2017). [3]
References
- Caballero, E., & Hollis, M. B. (1959). Trematodos de peces de aguas mexicanas del Pacifico XVII. Dos nuevos generos de Monogenoidea Bychowsky, 1937. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 30: 167-181.
- WoRMS (2018). Mexicana Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=518845 on 2018-08-13
- 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.
- Chero, J., Cruces, C., Sáez, G., & Alvariño, L. (2014). Mexicana iannaconi n. sp. (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) parasite of Chere-Chere Grunt Haemulon steindachneri (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)(Perciformes: Haemulidae) from the Peruvian Coast. Neotropical Helminthology, 8(2), 429-438.
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