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Pseudorhamnocercoides

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Pseudorhamnocercoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Dactylogyridea
Family: Diplectanidae
Genus: Pseudorhamnocercoides
Chero, Cruces, Sáez, Iannacone & Luque, 2017
Species:
P. stichospinus
Binomial name
Pseudorhamnocercoides stichospinus
(Seamster & Monaco, 1956) Chero, Cruces, Sáez, Iannacone & Luque, 2017

Pseudorhamnocercoides is a genus of monogeneans in the family Diplectanidae.[1][2] The genus is monospecific, containing the single species Pseudorhamnocercoides stichospinus.[3]

Etymology

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The generic name refers "to the several misidentifications of the single species of the new genus as Rhamnocercoides".[2]

References

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  1. ^ WoRMS (2018). Pseudorhamnocercoides Chero, Cruces, Sáez, Iannacone & Luque, 2017. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1036539 on 2018-12-23
  2. ^ a b Chero, Jhon D.; Cruces, Celso L.; Sáez, Gloria; Iannacone, José; Luque, José L. (2017). "Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on sciaenid fish from Peru with the proposal of Pseudorhamnocercoides n. gen., the description of Rhamnocercus dominguesi n. sp. and the redescription of Rhamnocercoides menticirrhi Luque and Iannacone, 1991". Acta Parasitologica. 62 (3): 541–548. doi:10.1515/ap-2017-0065. ISSN 1896-1851. PMID 28682761. S2CID 2611260.
  3. ^ Seamster, Aaron, & Monaco, Lawrence H. (1956). A new species of Rhamnocercinae. American Midland Naturalist, 180-183. PDF in JSTOR Open access icon