Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Polyopisthocotylea > Order Diclybothriidea > Family Hexabothriidae > Genus Protocotyle

Protocotyle grisea (Cerfontaine, 1899) Euzet & Maillard, 1974

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Protocotyle*	Euzet & Maillard, 1974	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Erpocotyle grisea*	(Cerfontaine, 1899) Palombi, 1949	synonym
*Squalonchocotyle grisea*	Cerfontaine, 1899	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	Boukadoum, A.; Tazerouti, F. (2024(2025)). Comprehensive annotated checklist of monogenean diversity and distribution in Algerian marine fish. Systematic Parasitology. 102:13.
additional source	Strona, G.; Stefani, F.; Galli, P. (2010). Monogenoidean parasites of Italian marine fish: An updated checklist. Italian Journal of Zoology. 77(4): 419-437.
redescription	Kheddam, H.; Justine, J.-L.; Tazerouti, F. (2016). Hexabothriid monogeneans from the gills of deep-sea sharks off Algeria, with the description of Squalonchocotyle euzeti n. sp. (Hexabothriidae) from the kitefin shark Dalatias licha (Euselachii, Dalatiidae). Helminthologia. 53(4).
new combination reference	Euzet, L.; Maillard, C. (1974). Les Monogènes Hexabothriidae Price, 1942. Historique, systématique, phylogenèse. BULLETIN DU MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. 3e série, n° 206, Zoologie 136, 113 - 141.