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 pilchardi (Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863) Sproston, 1946

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

Species group names

*Octocotyle pilchardi*	van Beneden & Hesse, 1863	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	Sproston, N.G. (1946). A synopsis of the monogenetic trematodes. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 25, 185-600.
additional source	Derbel, H.; Châari, M.; Neifar, L. (2022). Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Tunisian aquatic vertebrates. Helminthologia. 59(2): 179-199.
additional source	Boukadoum, A.; Tazerouti, F. (2024(2025)). Comprehensive annotated checklist of monogenean diversity and distribution in Algerian marine fish. Systematic Parasitology. 102:13.
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.