North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Discocotyle Diesing, 1850

AphiaID

119349 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119349)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Octobothrium sagittatum Leuckart, 1842 accepted as Discocotyle sagittata (Leuckart, 1842) Diesing, 1850

Parent

Discocotylidae Price, 1936

Synonymised names

Placoplectanum Diesing, 1858 · unaccepted (Synonym )

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Species Discocotyle sagittata (Leuckart, 1842) Diesing, 1850
Species Discocotyle dorosomatis Yamaguti, 1938 accepted as Neomazocraes dorosomatis (Yamaguti, 1938) Price, 1943 (Superseded combination)
Species Discocotyle leptogaster (Leuckart, 1830) Diesing, 1850 accepted as Placoplectanum leptogaster (Leuckart, 1830) Diesing, 1858 accepted as Chimaericola leptogaster (Leuckart, 1830) Brinkmann, 1942 (Superseded combination)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Discocotyle Diesing, 1850. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119349 on 2025-01-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bray, Rod

2006-07-31 06:57:06Z

changed

Camba Reu, Cibran

2011-02-23 14:16:44Z

checked

Gibson, David

2018-11-30 18:54:04Z

changed

Gibson, David

2024-03-04 16:14:58Z

changed

Gibson, David

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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 Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Beverley-Burton, M. (1984). Monogenea and Turbellaria. In: Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada, Part 1. (Edited by L. Margolis & Z. Kabata). Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa. 209 pp. [details]

redescription Ogawa, K.; Shirakashi, S.; Sata, N.; Itoh, N.; Ito, S.; Lewisch, E.; Bornstein, S. (2024). Description of Discocotyle ciray n. sp. (Monogenea: Discocotylidae) from Parahucho perryi (Brevoort) from Hokkaido, Japan, with a redescription of D. sagittata (Leuckart, 1842). Systematic Parasitology. 101(2)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-023-10146-9 [details]

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Habitat Essentially in fresh (occasionally brackish) waters. [details]

Definitions

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