WoRMS taxon details

Microcotyle pomatomi Goto, 1899

119761  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119761)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Platyhelminthes (Phylum)
  4. Rhabditophora (Subphylum)
  5. Neodermata (Superclass)
  6. Monogenea (Class)
  7. Polyopisthocotylea (Subclass)
  8. Mazocraeidea (Order)
  9. Microcotylidae (Family)
  10. Microcotylinae (Subfamily)
  11. Microcotyle (Genus)
  12. Microcotyle pomatomi (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
Not documented
Distribution widely distributed along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, also Canadian Atlantic coast  
Distribution widely distributed along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, also Canadian Atlantic coast [details]
WoRMS (2025). Microcotyle pomatomi Goto, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119761 on 2025-03-25
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Bray, Rod

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Nomenclature

basis of record Bray, R.A. (2001). Monogenea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 142-146 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription López-Román, R.; De Armas Hernández, F. (1989). Monogeneans in sea fish of Canary Archipelago. <em>Investigation in Parasitology. Collection of Papers. Vladivostok: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Far-East Branch.</em> pp. 24-31 (In Russian). [details] 

redescription Khidr, A. A..; Abu Samak, O. A.; Said, A. E.; Taman, N. A. (2007). Description of two monogenean parasites, Microcotyle aegypticus n. sp. and Microcotyle pomatomi infesting the gills of the marine fish, Pomatomus saltatrix in Damietta region, Egypt. <em>Journal-Egyptian German Society of Zoology,.</em> 54, 99–111. [details] 

Other

additional source Hendrix, S.S. (1994). Marine Flora and Fauna of the Eastern United States. Platyhelminthes: Monogenea. <em>U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, Washington. Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Technical Report.</em> No. NOAA-TR-NMFS-121: 107 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Cohen, S.C.; Justo, M.C.N.; Kohn, A. (2013). South American Monogenoidea parasites of fishes, amphibians and reptiles. <em>FioCruz, Rio de Janeiro.</em> 662 pp. [details] 

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet parasitic on host [details]

Distribution widely distributed along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, also Canadian Atlantic coast [details]

Habitat on the gills of bluefish [details]

Reproduction hermaphroditic [details]
    Definitions

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microcotyle pomatomi) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (2 records) (from synonym Microcotyle temnodontis Sandars, 1945)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (9 records) 
To ITIS

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