Echinoplectanum

Echinoplectanum
Echinoplectanum laeve
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Order:	Dactylogyridea
Family:	Diplectanidae
Genus:	Echinoplectanum Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1]

Echinoplectanum laeve

Echinoplectanum is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans in the family Diplectanidae. All its species are parasites on the gills of fish; hosts recorded to date are all groupers (Family Serranidae), including coralgroupers (genus Plectropomus) and the Dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus). So far, species of Echinoplectanum have been recorded only from fish caught off Australia, New Caledonia and in the Mediterranean Sea. [1]

The type-species of the genus is Echinoplectanum laeve Justine & Euzet, 2006.[1]

Etymology

The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek plectos, "plaited, twisted", in reference to its squamodiscs, and echinos, "hedgehog", in reference to its cirral spines.

Species

Species include:

• Echinoplectanum chauvetorum Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1]
• Echinoplectanum echinophallus (Euzet & Oliver, 1965) Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1][2]
• Echinoplectanum laeve Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1]
• Echinoplectanum leopardi Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1]
• Echinoplectanum plectropomi (Young, 1969) Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1][3]
• Echinoplectanum pudicum Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1]
• Echinoplectanum rarum Justine & Euzet, 2006 [1]

References

1. Justine, Jean-Lou; Euzet, Louis (2006). "Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on the gills of the coralgroupers Plectropomus laevis and P. leopardus (Perciformes, Serranidae) off New Caledonia, with the description of five new species and the erection of Echinoplectanum n. g." Systematic Parasitology. 64 (3): 147–172. doi:10.1007/s11230-006-9028-8. ISSN 0165-5752. PMID 16786281.
2. Euzet, L.; Oliver, G. (1965). "Diplectanidae (Monogenea) de Téléostéens de la Méditerranée occidentale. II. Parasites d'Epinephelus gigas (Brünnich, 1768". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 40 (5): 517–523. doi:10.1051/parasite/1965405517. ISSN 0003-4150.
3. Young, P. C. (2009). "Some Monogenoideans of the Family Diplectanidae Bychowsky, 1957 from Australian Teleost Fishes". Journal of Helminthology. 43 (1–2): 223–254. doi:10.1017/S0022149X00004053. ISSN 0022-149X. PMID 5381127. S2CID 39303396.