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

Plectanocotyle major Boudaya, Neifar & Euzet, 2006

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plectanocotyle*	Diesing, 1850	accepted genus name
*Phyllocotyle*	Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863	synonym

Literature

original description	Boudaya, L.; Neifar, L.; Euzet, L. (2006). Plectanocotyle major n. sp. (Monogenea, Plectanocotylidae), a gill parasite of Chelidonichthys obscurus (Teleostei: Triglidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Folia Parasitologica. 53: 53-56.
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.
additional source	Ayadi, Z. E. M.; Tazerouti, F.; Gey, D.; Justine, J.-L. (2022). A revision of Plectanocotyle (Monogenea, Plectanocotylidae), with molecular barcoding of three species and the description of a new species from the streaked gurnard Chelidonichthys lastoviza off Algeria. PeerJ. 10: e12873.