Mexicana (flatworm)

Mexicana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Monogenea
Order:
Monopisthocotylea
Family:
Ancyrocephalidae
Genus:
Mexicana

Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959 [1]
Species

See text.

Mexicana is a genus of monogeneans belonging to the family Ancyrocephalidae.[2] All members of the genus are parasitic on fish.[3]

Species

The following species are considered valid according to WorRMS: [2]

For the distribution of Mexicana bychowskyi, see Mendoza-Garfias et al. (2017). [3]

References

  1. ^ a b Caballero, E., & Hollis, M. B. (1959). Trematodos de peces de aguas mexicanas del Pacifico XVII. Dos nuevos generos de Monogenoidea Bychowsky, 1937. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 30: 167-181.
  2. ^ a b WoRMS (2018). Mexicana Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=518845 on 2018-08-13
  3. ^ a b Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit; García-Prieto, Luis; León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De (2017). "Checklist of the monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in mexican aquatic vertebrates". Zoosystema. 39 (4): 501–598. doi:10.5252/z2017n4a5. ISSN 1280-9551. S2CID 89974549.
  4. ^ Chero, J., Cruces, C., Sáez, G., & Alvariño, L. (2014). Mexicana iannaconi n. sp. (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) parasite of Chere-Chere Grunt Haemulon steindachneri (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)(Perciformes: Haemulidae) from the Peruvian Coast. Neotropical Helminthology, 8(2), 429-438.