Rhamnocercoides

Rhamnocercoides is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans, belonging to the family Diplectanidae.[1][2] All species of Rhamnocercoides are parasites of marine perciform fishes of the family Sciaenidae.

Rhamnocercoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Monogenea
Order:
Monopisthocotylea
Family:
Diplectanidae
Genus:
Rhamnocercoides

Luque & Iannacone, 1991
Species

See text.

Etymology

The generic name is based "in the morphological similarity with the genus Rhamnocercus".[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species,[2] two species are included in the genus:

  • Rhamnocercoides dominguesi Chero, Cruces, Sáez, Iannacone & Luque, 2017 [3]
  • Rhamnocercoides menticirrhi Luque & Iannacone, 1991 [1]

References
  1. Luque, J.L. & Iannacone, J. (1991) Rhamnocercidae (Monogenea: Dactylogyroidea) in Sciaenidae fishes from Perú, with description of Rhamnocercoides menticirrhi n. gen., n. sp. and two new species of Rhamnocercus. Revista de Biología Tropical, 39, 193–201. PDF open access
  2. WoRMS (2018). Rhamnocercoides Luque & Iannacone, 1991. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517980 on 2018-12-26
  3. Chero, Jhon D.; Cruces, Celso L.; Sáez, Gloria; Iannacone, José; Luque, José L. (2017). "Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on sciaenid fish from Peru with the proposal of Pseudorhamnocercoides n. gen., the description of Rhamnocercus dominguesi n. sp. and the redescription of Rhamnocercoides menticirrhi Luque and Iannacone, 1991". Acta Parasitologica. 62 (3): 541–548. doi:10.1515/ap-2017-0065. ISSN 1896-1851. PMID 28682761. S2CID 2611260.
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