Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Monopisthocotylea > Order Monocotylidea > Family Microbothriidae > Genus Leptocotyle

Leptocotyle minor (Monticelli, 1888) Monticelli, 1905

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leptocotyle*	Monticelli, 1905	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pseudocotyle minor*	Monticelli, 1888	synonym

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	Llewellyn, J.; Green, J.E.; Kearn, G.C. (1984). A check-list of monogenean (Platyhelminth) parasites of Plymouth hosts. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 64: 881-887
additional source	Gayevskaya, A. V.; Kovaljova, A. A. (1979). Monogeneans from the Atlantic horse mackerels of the genus Trachurus. Zoologicheskiî zhurnal. 58(8), 1110–1116.
additional source	Moore, A.B.M. (2001). Metazoan parasites of the lesser-spotted dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula and their potential as stock discrimination tools. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 81, 1009-1013.