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

Microbothriidae Price, 1936

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dermophthirius MacCallum, 1926
Leptobothrium Gallien, 1937
Leptocotyle Monticelli, 1905
Microbothrium Olsson, 1869
Neodermophthirius Price, 1963
Pseudocotyle Beneden & Hesse, 1865

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: kagi-nashi-hada-mushi-ka

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
toxicology source	Nitta, M.; Ota, S. (2025). Two New Species of Microbothrium (Monogenea: Microbothriidae) Parasitic on Japanese Squalids (Elasmobranchii: Squaliformes). Species Diversity. 30(1): 25-36.
identification resource	Nitta, M.; Nagasawa, K. (2017). Haplocotyle japonica n. gen., n. sp. (Monogenea: Microbothriidae) Parasitic on Rhinobatos hynnicephalus (Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes: Rhinobatidae) in Japanese Waters. Species Diversity. 22: 117–125.