Microcotyle erythrini is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae. This species was described by Van Beneden & Hesse in 1863Van Beneden, P. J., & Hesse, C. E. (1863). Recherches sur les Bdellodes (Hirudinées) et les trématodes marins: Mémoire présenté à l'Académie Royale de Belgique https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44307#page/9/mode/1up.html and redescribed by Parona & Perugia in 1890.Parona, C., & Perugia, A. (1890). Contribuzione per una monografia del genere Microcotyle. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Series 2, 5, 173 220 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95300#page/181/mode/1up.html
Hosts and localities
The type-host is Pagellus erythrinus. The type-locality is off Brest. The species has been since recorded from three other hosts (Pagellus acarne, Boops boops Ramdane Z, Trilles J-P, Mahe K, Amara R (2013) Metazoan ectoparasites of two teleost fish, Boops boops (L.) and Mullus barbatus barbatus L. from Algerian coast: diversity, parasitological index and impact of parasitism. Cybium 37:59-66 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00148/25901/.html López-Román R, Guevara Pozo D (1973) Especies de la familia Microcotylidae (Monogenea) halladas en teleosteos marinos de la costa de Granada. Revista Iberica de Parasitologia 33:197-233 and Dentex dentex) in several localities in the Mediterranean (Montenegro,Radujkovic BM, Euzet L (1989) Parasites des poissons marins du Monténégro: Monogènes. In: Radujkovic, B. M & Raibaut, A. (Eds) Faune des parasites de poissons marins des côtes du Monténégro (Adriatique Sud) Acta Adriatica 30:51-135 France, Italy, Algeria,Kaouachi N, Boualleg C, Bensouilah M, Marchand B (2010) Monogenean parasites in sparid fish (Pagellus genus) in eastern Algeria coastline. African Journal of Microbiology Research 4:989-993 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00148/25901/23918.pdf.html Kouider El Ouahed-Amine F (1998) Contribution à l'étude des Monogènes parasites des poissons Sparidae (Téléostéens) du littoral Algérois. Approche taxonomique et écologique. Université des Sciences et Technologie Houari Boumedienne, Alger, Algeria Spain, Turkey) and in the Atlantic, off France and off Spain).
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