Lethacotyle
Sign in to saveLethacotyle is a genus of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans, included in the family Protomicrocotylidae. The genus includes only two species: Lethacotyle fijiensis Manter & Price, 1953 , the type-species of the genus, and Lethacotyle vera Justine, Rahmouni, Gey, Schoelinck, & Hoberg, 2013 . Both species are parasitic on the gills of jacks in the Pacific Ocean. They are known only from three localities: off Fiji, Andaman Islands, and New Caledonia. The genus Lethacotyle is special in that its members have no clamps on their posterior attachment organ or haptor, in contrast to most polyopisthoco
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- ClassMonogenea
- OrderMazocraeidea
- FamilyProtomicrocotylidae
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Lethacotyle is a genus of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans, included in the family Protomicrocotylidae. The genus includes only two species: Lethacotyle fijiensis Manter & Price, 1953
, the type-species of the genus, and Lethacotyle vera Justine, Rahmouni, Gey, Schoelinck, & Hoberg, 2013 . Both species are parasitic on the gills of jacks in the Pacific Ocean. They are known only from three localities: off Fiji, Andaman Islands, and New Caledonia.
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