Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Polyopisthocotylea > Superorder Oligonchoinea > Order Mazocraeidea > Suborder Discocotylinea > Family Discocotylidae

Discocotyle Diesing, 1850

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Discocotyle sagittata*	(Leuckart, 1842) Diesing, 1850	taxonomically included in

Children

Discocotyle sagittata (Leuckart, 1842) Diesing, 1850

Literature

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
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.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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).