Bychowskicotylidae is a
family
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of
monogenea
Monogeneans are a group of ectoparasitic flatworms commonly found on the skin, gills, or fins of fish. They have a direct lifecycle and do not require an intermediate host. Adults are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female reprod ...
ns in the
order
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Mazocraeidea
Mazocraeidea is an order in the subclass Polyopisthocotylea within class Monogenea.
The species of this order have various structures in the clamps of their posterior attachment organ, including additional sclerites in the Gastrocotylidae and r ...
.
[WoRMS (2018). Bychowskicotylidae Lebedev, 1969. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=518771 on 2018-08-10 ] The name of the family, and of its type-genus ''
Bychowskicotyle'', was created to honour
Boris Evseevitch Bychowsky
Boris Yevseyevich Bychowsky (Борис Евсеевич Быховский, 27 August 1908 – 26 January 1974) was a Soviet scientist and parasitologist, specialist of fish parasites, especially monogeneans. He was director of the Institute of Z ...
, a Soviet scientist and parasitologist, specialist of monogeneans.
Genera
*''
Bychowskicotyle''
Lebedev, 1969 [
*'' Gaterina'' Lebedev, 1969][
*'' Tonkinopsis'' Lebedev, 1972 ][Lebedev, B. I. (1972). The taxonomy of monogeneans of suborder Gastrocotylinea. Investigations on the fauna, systematics, and biochemistry of helminths in the Far East. ''Proceedings of the Institute of Biology and Pedology'', 11(114), 121–145.]
*'' Yamaguticotyla'' Price, 1959 [Price, W. E. (1959). A proposed reclassification of the gastrocotyloid Monogenea. ''Journal of Parasitology'', 31.]
References
Polyopisthocotylea
Platyhelminthes families
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