Caballeraxine

Caballeraxine
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Mazocraeidea
Family: Microcotylidae
Subfamily: Microcotylinae
Genus: Caballeraxine
Lebedev, 1972
Species:
C. chainanica
Binomial name
Caballeraxine chainanica
(Lebedev, Parukhin & Roitman, 1970) Lebedev, 1972

Caballeraxine is a genus which belongs to the family Microcotylidae and class Monogenea. As all Monogenea, species of Caballeraxine are ectoparasites that affect their host by attaching themselves as larvae on the gills of the fish and grow into adult stage. This larval stage is called oncomiracidium, and is characterized as free swimming and ciliated.

Members of the genus Caballeraxine are characterised by a single, unarmed vagina.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus includes one species:

  • Caballeraxine chainanica (Lebedev, Parukhin & Roitman, 1970) Lebedev, 1972 previously included in Axinella as Axinella chainanica Lebedev, Parukhin & Roitman, 1970

References

  1. 1 2 Lebedev, B. I. 1972. Caballeraxine nom. nov., -a new name for Axinella Lebedev, Paruchin et Roitman, 1970 (Monogenoidea). [In Russian, Engl. sum.] Trudy Biologo-Pochvennogo Instituta n. s. (114) :154.
  2. ↑ Yoon, Gil Ha; Al-Jufaili, Sarah; Freeman, Mark A; Bron, James E; Paladini, Giuseppe; Shinn, Andrew P (2013). "Omanicotyle heterospina n. gen. et n. comb. (Monogenea: Microcotylidae) from the gills of Argyrops spinifer (Forsskål) (Teleostei: Sparidae) from the Sea of Oman". Parasites & Vectors. 6 (1): 170. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-170. ISSN 1756-3305. PMC 3683332. PMID 23758894.
  3. ↑ WoRMS (2019). Caballeraxine Lebedev, 1972. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=518920 on 2019-11-27
  4. ↑ Lebedev, B. I., Parukhin, A. M., & Roitman, V. A. (1970). Oligonchoinea (Monogenoidea), parasites of horse mackerel in the North Vietnam Bay (Gulf of Tonkin). Biologiya Morya, Kiev, (20), 167-187.