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

Discocotyle sagittata (Leuckart, 1842) Diesing, 1850

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Discocotyle*	Diesing, 1850	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Octobothrium sagittata*	Leuckart, 1842	objective synonym
*Octobothrium sagittatum*	Leuckart, 1842	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	Margolis, L. & Z. Kabata (eds.). (1984). Guide to the parasites of fishes of Canada. Part 1. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 74:1-209.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
redescription	Pugachev, O. N.; Gerasev, P. I.; Gussev, A. V.; Ergens, R.; Khotenowsky, I. (2010). Guide to Monogenoidea of freshwater fish of Palaearctic and Amur regions. Ledizion-Ledipublishing, Milan. 562 pp.
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).