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

Mazocraes harengi (Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mazocraes*	Hermann, 1782	accepted genus name
*Octobothrium*	Leuckart, 1827	synonym
*Octocotyle*	Diesing, 1850	synonym
*Octostoma*	Kuhn, 1829	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	Rahimian, H., Longshaw, M., Mackenzie, K. & Thulin, J. (1999). Pseudanthocotyloides heterocotyle (van Beneden, 1871) Euzet & Prost, 1969 (Monogenea, Polyopisthocotylea, Mazocraeidae), a parasite of herring Clupea harengus L. and sprat Sprattus sprattus L. (Teleostei: Clupeidae). Systematic Parasitology 42 193-201.
status source	Sailaja, B.; Shameem, U.; Madhavi, R. (2019). Two new species of Mazocraes Hermann (Monogenea: Mazocraeidae) from clupeoid fishes off Visakhapatnam, Bay of Bengal. Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 43(2): 313-318.