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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGyrodactylus pleuronecti Cone, 1981 
AphiaID: 158626

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPlatyhelminthes (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeodermata (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMonogenea (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMonopisthocotylea (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGyrodactylidea (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGyrodactylidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGyrodactylus (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGyrodactylus pleuronecti (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGyrodactylus von Nordmann, 1832
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGyrodactylus pleuronecti Cone, 1981
Sources  original description Cone, D. K. (1981). Gyrodactylus pleuronecti n. sp. (Monogenea) from winter flounder ( Pseudopleuronectes americanus ) in Newfoundland, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 59(12): 2241-2243., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z81-303 [details]

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Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Feedingtype  parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792) [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
Notes 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDiet parasitic on host [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution recorded in the Canadian Atlantic waters [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat on the gills, fins and body surface of winter flounder [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReproduction hermaphroditic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158626
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 14:23:20Z  created  Claus, Simon
2010-09-14 13:04:11Z  checked  Gibson, David
  
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  Citation: Gibson, D. (2015). Gyrodactylus pleuronecti. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158626 on 2016-09-26
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