Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Monopisthocotylea > Order Dactylogyridea > Suborder Dactylogyrinea > Family Diplectanidae > Genus Pseudorhabdosynochus

Pseudorhabdosynochus sulamericanus Santos, Buchmann & Gibson, 2000

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudorhabdosynochus*	Yamaguti, 1958	accepted genus name
*Cycloplectanum*	Oliver, 1968	synonym

Literature

original description	Santos, C. P.; Buchmann, K.; Gibson, D. I. (2000). Pseudorhabdosynochus spp. (Monogenea: Diplectanidae) from the gills of Epinephelus spp. in Brazilian waters. Systematic Parasitology. 45(2): 145-153.
additional source	Cohen, S.C.; Justo, M.C.N.; Kohn, A. (2013). South American Monogenoidea parasites of fishes, amphibians and reptiles. FioCruz, Rio de Janeiro. 662 pp.
additional source	Derbel, H.; Châari, M.; Neifar, L. (2022). Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Tunisian aquatic vertebrates. Helminthologia. 59(2): 179-199.
redescription	Kritsky, D. C.; Bakenhaster, M. D.; Adams, D. H. (2015). Pseudorhabdosynochus species (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae) parasitizing groupers (Serranidae: Epinephelinae: Epinephelini) in the western Atlantic Ocean and adjacent waters, with descriptions of 13 new species. Parasite. 22.
redescription	Chaabane, A.; Justine, J.-L.; Gey, D.; Bakenhaster, M. D.; Neifar, L. (2016). Pseudorhabdosynochus sulamericanus (Monogenea, Diplectanidae), a parasite of deep-sea groupers (Serranidae) occurs transatlantically on three congeneric hosts (Hyporthodusspp.), one from the Mediterranean Sea and two from the western Atlantic. PeerJ. 4: e2233.

Genbank

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Pseudorhabdosynochus sulamericanus Santos, Buchmann & Gibson, 2000. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468119