WoRMS taxon details
Axinidae Monticelli, 1903
119236 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119236)
accepted
Family
Axinidae Unnithan, 1957 · unaccepted > junior homonym
- Genus Axine Abildgaard, 1794
- Genus Axinoides Yamaguti, 1938
- Genus Chlamydaxine Unnithan, 1957
- Genus Diplaxine Ghichenok, 1975
- Genus Indocotyle Tripathi, 1959
- Genus Laccadivensia Gupta & Chanana, 1976
- Genus Loxura Unnithan, 1957
- Genus Loxuroides Price, 1962
- Genus Neoaxine Price, 1946
- Genus Nudaciraxine Price, 1962
- Genus Oligapta Unnithan, 1957
- Genus Ondoella Horikawa, Nitta & Kamio, 2025
- Genus Paraxine Gutpa & Krishna, 1982
- Genus Unnithanaxine Price, 1962
- Genus Vitellinariotrema Gutpa & Krishna, 1982
- Subfamily Axininae Monticelli, 1903 (uncertain)
- Subfamily Axinoidinae Price, 1962 (uncertain)
- Subfamily Indocotylinae Tripathi, 1959 (uncertain)
- Genus Thaparotrema Gutpa & Krishna, 1982 nec Gupta, 1955 (uncertain, Pre-occupied)
- Genus Amonaxine Unnithan, 1957 accepted as Neoaxine Price, 1946 (Synonym )
- Genus Axinoa Unnithan, 1971 accepted as Axinoides Yamaguti, 1938 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Cestracolpa Meserve, 1938 accepted as Axine Abildgaard, 1794 (synonym)
- Genus Heteracanthus Diesing, 1836 accepted as Axine Abildgaard, 1794 (unaccepted > junior objective synonym, Invalid renaming of Axine.)
- Genus Heteraxinoides Yamaguti, 1943 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Genus Heteraxinoides Price, 1962 accepted as Axine Abildgaard, 1794 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Heteraxinoides Yamaguti, 1963 accepted as Neoheteraxinoides Kritsky, 2022 (unaccepted > junior homonym, Homonym of Heteraxinoides Price, 1962)
- Genus Heteraxinoides Yamaguti sensu Price (1962) accepted as Neoheteraxinoides Kritsky, 2022 (unaccepted > junior homonym, Homonym of Heteraxinoides Price, 1962)
marine, brackish
Not documented
WoRMS (2026). Axinidae Monticelli, 1903. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119236 on 2026-07-02
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Axinidae Unnithan, 1957) Unnithan, R. V. (1957). On the functional morphology of a new fauna of Monogenea on fishes from Trivandrum and environs. Part 1. Axinidae fam. nov. <em>Bull. Cent. Res. Inst. Univ. Kerala, Trivandrum.</em> 5, (Ser. C. Nat. Sci.): 27-122. [details]
basis of record Bray, R.A. (2001). Monogenea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 142-146 (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Bray, R.A. (2001). Monogenea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 142-146 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Kritsky, D. C.; Bakenhaster, M. D. (2022). Axinids (Monogenoidea: Mazocraeidea: Microcotylinea) infecting the gill lamellae of some beloniform fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, with descriptions of Axine buccina n. sp. from Hyporhamphus unifasciatus (Ranzani) and Nudaciraxine timucua n. sp. from Strongylura timucu (Walbaum). <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-022-10060-6 [details]
redescription Price, E. W. (1962). North American Monogenetic Trematodes. X. The Family Axinidae. <em>Prodeedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington.</em> 29(1): 1-18.
note: Wrongly attributed to Unnithan, 1957. [details]
redescription Price, E. W. (1962). North American Monogenetic Trematodes. X. The Family Axinidae. <em>Prodeedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington.</em> 29(1): 1-18.
note: Wrongly attributed to Unnithan, 1957. [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Santillán, L.A., C.L. Cruces, G.M. Sáez, R. Martínez-Rojas, A. Mondragón-Martínez, G.A.M. Morey, M. Quiñones, J.L. Luque & J.D. Chero. (2024). An Annotated Checklist of Monogeneans (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea) from Aquatic Vertebrates in Peru: A Review of Diversity, Hosts and Geographical Distribution. <em>Animals.</em> 14(11): 1-17. Jun 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14111542 [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Yamaguti, S. (1968). Monogenetic trematodes of Hawaiian fishes. <em>University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.</em> 287 pp.
note: Wrongly attributed to Unnithan, 1957. [details]
[request]additional source Yamaguti, S. (1968). Monogenetic trematodes of Hawaiian fishes. <em>University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.</em> 287 pp.
note: Wrongly attributed to Unnithan, 1957. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
