Acanthocotylidae

Acanthocotylidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Subclass:	Monopisthocotylea
Order:	Gyrodactylidea
Family:	Acanthocotylidae; Monticelli, 1903[1]
Genera
	Acanthocotyle; Lophocotyle; Myxinidocotyle; Pseudacanthocotyla;
Synonyms
	Acanthocotylinae Monticelli, 1903; Allacanthocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963; Lophocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963; Pseudacanthocotylinae Yamaguti, 1963;

Acanthocotylidae is a family of monogenean fish skin parasites.

References

Per una nuova classificazione degli “Heterocotylea” FS Monticelli - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, 1903

North American monogenetic trematodes. II. The families Monocotylidae, Microbothriidae, Acanthocotylidae and Udonellidae (Capsaloidea). EW Price - Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1938
Myxinidocotyle gen. n. and Lophocotyle Braun (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Acanthocotylidae) with descriptions of three new species from hagfishes (Chordata …G MALMBERG, BO FERNHOLM - Zoologica Scripta, 1989

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