''Genitocotyle'' is a
genus
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of
trematodes
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in the
family
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Opecoelidae
Opecoelidae is a family of trematodes. It is the largest digenean family with over 90 genera and nearly 900 species, almost solely found in marine and freshwater teleost fishes.Bray, Rodney A., Cribb, Thomas H., Littlewood, D. Timothy J. & Waesch ...
. The species of ''Genitocotyle'' are
endoparasitic
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in certain marine fishes.
Species
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Genitocotyle acirrus
''Genitocotyle'' is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. The species of ''Genitocotyle'' are endoparasitic in certain marine fishes.
Species
*'' Genitocotyle acirrus'' Park, 1937
*''Genitocotyle atlantica
''Genitocotyle'' is a gen ...
''
Park, 1937[
*'']Genitocotyle atlantica
''Genitocotyle'' is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. The species of ''Genitocotyle'' are endoparasitic
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another orga ...
'' Manter, 1947[Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. ''American Midland Naturalist'', 38, 257–416.]
*''Genitocotyle cablei
''Genitocotyle'' is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. The species of ''Genitocotyle'' are endoparasitic in certain marine fishes.
Species
*''Genitocotyle acirrus'' Park, 1937
*''Genitocotyle atlantica
''Genitocotyle'' is a genu ...
'' Nahhas & Short, 1965[Nahhas, F. M. & Short, R. B. (1965). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Apalachee Bay, Gulf of Mexico. ''Tulane Studies in Zoology'', 12, 39–50.]
*'' Genitocotyle heterostichi'' Montgomery, 1957[Montgomery, W. R. (1957). Studies on Digenetic Trematodes from Marine Fishes of La Jolla, California. ''Transactions of the American Microscopical Society'', 76(1), 13–36.]
*'' Genitocotyle mediterranea'' Bartoli, Gibson & Riutort, 1994[Bartli, P., Gibson, D. & Riutort, J. (1994). ''Genitocotyle mediterranea'' n. sp. (Digenea, Opecoelidae) from ''Symphodus ocellatus'' (Teleostei, Labridae) in the western Mediterranean. ''Parasite'', 1(4), 365–370.]
References
Opecoelidae
Plagiorchiida genera
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