Mazocraeidea is an order of

flatworm Platyhelminthes (from the Greek language, Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a Phylum (biology), phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, Segmentation (biology), ...

s in the subclass

Polyopisthocotylea Polyopisthocotylea is a subclass of parasitic flatworms in the class Monogenea.WoRMS (2023). Polyopisthocotylea. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119220 on 2023-12-21Yamaguti, S. (1963). Systema Helminthum Volu ...

within the class

Monogenea Monogeneans, members of the class Monogenea, are a group of ectoparasitic flatworms commonly found on the skin, gills, or fins of fish. They have a direct lifecycle and do not require an intermediate host. Adults are hermaphrodites, meaning they ...

. The species of this order have various structures in the clamps of their posterior attachment organ, including additional sclerites in the Gastrocotylidae and related families. However, these additional sclerites, and even the clamps themselves, are lacking in certain members of the family

Protomicrocotylidae Protomicrocotylidae is a family of monogenean parasites in the order Mazocraeidea. The type-genus of the family is '' Protomicrocotyle''. The genus was created in 1922 by Thomas Harvey Johnston and Oscar Werner Tiegs for a worm previously ...

Families

;According to PESI: * Anthocotylidae Bychowsky, 1957 * Axinidae Monticelli, 1903 * Chauhaneidae

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& Trilles, 1960 *

Diclidophoridae Diclidophoridae is a family of Monogenea, monogeneans within the order Mazocraeidea. Genera Placed by World Register of Marine Species, WoRMS: * ''Absonifibula'' * ''Allodiclidophora'' * ''Allotagia'' * ''Atlanticotyle'' * ''Bravocotyle' ...

Fuhrmann, 1928 * Diplozoidae *

Discocotylidae Discocotylidae is a family of flatworms belonging to the order Mazocraeidea. Genera: * '' Allocotylophora'' Dillon & Hargis, 1965 * '' Anthocotyle'' Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 * '' Bicotylophora'' Price, 1936 * '' Discocotyle'' Diesing, 1850 * ...

Price, 1936 * Gotocotylidae Yamaguti, 1963 *

Heteraxinidae Mazocraeidea is an order of flatworms in the subclass Polyopisthocotylea within the class Monogenea. The species of this order have various structures in the clamps of their posterior attachment organ, including additional sclerites in the Gast ...

Unnithan, 1957 * Hexostomatidae Price, 1936 * Mazocraeidae Price, 1936 *

Microcotylidae Microcotylidae is a family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans.WoRMS (2018). Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119247 on 2018-12-03 All the species in this family are parasitic on ...

Taschenberg, 1879 * Octolabeidae *

Plectanocotylidae Plectanocotylidae is a family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans.WoRMS (2018). Plectanocotylidae Monticelli, 1903. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119249 on 2018-12-29 All the species in this family are parasi ...

Monticelli, 1903 *

Johnston & Tiegs, 1922 * Pyragraphoridae Yamaguti, 1963 ;According to the

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Allodiscocotylidae Allodiscocotylidae is a family of Monogenea, monogeneans within the order Mazocraeidea, containing 6 genera. Members of this family primarily host species of fish, such as ''Allodiscocotyla chorinemi'' hosting ''Doublespotted queenfish, Scomberoi ...

* Allopyragraphoridae * Anchorophoridae * Anthocotylidae * Axinidae *

Bychowskicotylidae Bychowskicotylidae is a family of monogeneans in the order Mazocraeidea.WoRMS (2018). Bychowskicotylidae Lebedev, 1969. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=518771 on 2018-08-10 The name of the family, and of its type- ...

* Chauhaneidae *

* Diplozoidae *

* Gastrocotylidae * Gotocotylidae *

* Heteromicrocotylidae * Hexostomatidae * Macrovalvitrematidae * Mazocraeidae *

Megamicrocotylidae Mazocraeidea is an order of flatworms in the subclass Polyopisthocotylea within the class Monogenea. The species of this order have various structures in the clamps of their posterior attachment organ, including additional sclerites in the Gast ...

* Monaxinoididae * Neothoracocotylidae * Octolabeidae * Paramonaxinidae *

* Pseudodiclidophoridae * Pterinotrematidae * Pyragraphoridae * Thoracocotylidae

References

Platyhelminthes orders Polyopisthocotylea {{Monogenea-stub