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Anthocotyle merluccii van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 
AphiaID: 119399

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Platyhelminthes (Phylum) > Monogenea (Class) > Polyopisthocotylea (Subclass) > Mazocraeidea (Order) > Discocotylidae (Family) > Anthocotyle (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Anthocotyle van Beneden & Hesse, 1863
Synonymised
taxa		  Acanthocotyle merluccii (van Beneden & Hesse, 1863) (lapsus)
Sources  basis of record: Bray, R.A. (2001). Monogenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 142-146 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Hendrix, S.S. 1994. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Platyhelminthes: Monogena. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 121. 107 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Margolis, L. and Z. Kabata (eds.). 1984. Guide to the parasites of fishes of Canada. Part 1. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74. 209 p.  [details]

Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Marmara Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Plymouth [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Notes  Diet: parasitic on host [details]

Distribution: reported in Canadian waters as well as eastern, southeastern, and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean [details]

Habitat: on the gills of silver hake [details]

Reproduction: hermaphroditic [details]
Image 
Van Beneden & Hesse (1864, pl. 10)
Van Beneden & Hesse (1864, pl. 10)
added on 2011-07-04 - author: P.J. Van Beneden & C.E. Hesse
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119399
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bray, Rod
2013-02-05 14:29:02Z  changed  Gibson, David
  
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  Citation: Gibson, D.; Bray, R. (2013). Anthocotyle merluccii van Beneden & Hesse, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119399 on 2013-05-25
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