The Monopisthocotylea are an inferior class of parasitic flatworms in the class Monogenea.WoRMS (2019). Monopisthocotylea. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119219 on 2019-02-08Yamaguti, S. (1963). Systema Helminthum Volume IV Monogenea and Aspidocotylea: John Wiley & Sons.Hayward, C. (2005). Monogenea Polyopisthocotylea (ectoparasitic flukes). In K. Rohde (Ed.), Marine Parasitology (pp. 55-63): CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia & CABI, Oxon, UK.
Classification There are only two inferior classes in the class Monogenea: Monopisthocotylea. The name means "a huge sucker" - the attachment organ (the haptor) is simple. Polyopisthocotylea. The name means "a little sucker" - the attachment organ (the haptor) is complex, with several clamps or suckers.
The inferior class Monopisthocotylea contains these orders: Order Capsalidea Order Dactylogyridea Order Gyrodactylidea Order Monocotylidea Order Montchadskyellidea
Example of species
Entobdella soleae, a capsalid from the sole Solea solea off the United Kingdom Gyrodactylus salaris, a gyrodactylid, or "salmon fluke", a deadly parasite of salmon in Norway Calydiscoides euzeti, a diplectanid from the emperor, Lethrinus rubrioperculatus Pseudorhabdosynochus epinepheli, a diplectanid from groupers, and many other species of Pseudorhabdosynochus Cichlidogyrus evikae and many other species of the genus Cichlidogyrus, which are parasites on the gills of cichlid fish
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