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

Erpocotyle sphyrnae (MacCallum, 1931) Price, 1942

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Erpocotyle*	Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863	accepted genus name
*Neoerpocotyle*	Price, 1942	synonym

Species group names

*Squalonchocotyle sphyrnae*	MacCallum, 1931	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
redescription	Yamaguti, S. (1968). Monogenetic trematodes of Hawaiian fishes. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 287 pp.
redescription	Dalrymple, K. M.; De Buron, I.; Hill-Spanik, K. M.; Galloway, A. S.; Barker, A.; Portnoy, D. S.; Frazier, B. S.; Boeger, W. A. (2022). Hexabothriidae and Monocotylidae (Monogenoidea) from the gills of neonate hammerhead sharks (Sphyrnidae) Sphyrna gilberti, Sphyrna lewini, and their hybrids from the western North Atlantic ocean. Parasitology. 1-48.