Hexabothriidae is a family of monogenean parasites. The family name was proposed by Emmett W. Price in 1942.[1] The family includes 14-16 genera according to authors [2][3] and about 60 species; all are parasitic on the gills of chondrichthyan fishes (rays, sharks and chimaeras).[3][4]
Studies on phylogeny of monogeneans based on morphology,[5] molecules [6] or spermatozoa [7] suggest that the Hexabothriidae are a basal group within the Polyopisthocotylea.
Genera
According to the World Register of Marine Species [8]
^ abPrice, E. W. 1942: North American monogenetic trematodes. V. The family Hexabothriidae n. n. (Polystomatoidea). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 9, 39-56. PDF of entire volume
^ abPatella, Raquel; Bullard, Stephen A. (2013). "Hexabothriids of Devil Rays (Mobulidae): New genus and species from gill of Mobula hypostoma in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and redescription of a congener from Mobula rochebrunei in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean". Journal of Parasitology. 99 (5): 856–867. doi:10.1645/12-153.1. ISSN0022-3395. PMID23641805. S2CID42889782.
^ abcVaughan, D.; Christison, K. (2012). "Towards addressing the current state of confusion within the Hexabothriidae Price, 1942 (1908) Callorhynchocotyle Suriano & Incorvaia, 1982 (Monogenea: Hexabothriidae) re-visited, with the preliminary evaluation of novel parameters for measuring haptoral armature of hexabothriids". Zootaxa. 3229: 1–34. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3229.1.1.
^ abcEuzet, Louis & Maillard, Claude, 1974: Les Monogènes Hexabothriidae Price, 1942. Historique, systématique, phylogenèse. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3° série, 206, Zoologie 136, 113-141. [1]
^Boeger, W. A., & Kritsky, D. C. (2001). Phylogenetic relationships of the Monogenoidea. In D. T. J. Littlewood & R. A. Bray (Eds.), Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes (pp. 92-102). London & New York: Taylor and Francis
^Jovelin, Richard; Justine, Jean-Lou (2001). "Phylogenetic relationships within the polyopisthocotylean monogeneans (Platyhelminthes) inferred from partial 28S rDNA sequences". International Journal for Parasitology. 31 (4): 393–401. doi:10.1016/S0020-7519(01)00114-X. ISSN0020-7519. PMID11306118.
^Suriano, D. M. & Incorvaia, I. S. 1982: Sistematica y biologia de Callorhynchocotyle marplatensis Gen. et sp. nov (Monogenea: Polyopisthocotylea) parasita de las branquias de Callorhynchus callorhynchus (Linné, 1758) Garman, 1904 (Pisces: Holocephali) de la region costera de Mar del Plata. Comunicaciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de las Ciencias Naturales - Parasitologia (Buenos Aires), 2, 19-32.
^Hargis, W. J. Jr (1955). "Monogenetic trematodes of Gulf of Mexico fishes, Part VI. The superfamilies Polystomatoidea Price, 1936, and Diclidophoroidea Price, 1936". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 74 (4): 361–377. doi:10.2307/3224172. JSTOR3224172.
^van Beneden, Pierre-Joseph & Hesse, C. E. 1863: Recherches sur les bdellodes ou hirudinées et les trématodes marins. Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique, t. 34. Bruxelles: M. Hayez. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11767BHLPDF (Erpocotyle laevis: pages 87-89)
^von Nordmann, Alexander 1840 Les vers (vermes). In: J.-B. de Lamarck, Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres... Paris, 2 ed., III: 542-686.
^Ktari, Mohammed Hedi; Maillard, Claude (1972). "Neonchocotyle pastinacae n. g. n. sp. (Monogenea Hexabothriidae) parasite de Dasyatis pastinaca dans le Golfe de Tunis : description de l'adulte et de la larve". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 47 (2): 181–191. doi:10.1051/parasite/1972472181.
^Watson, D. E. & Thorson, Thomas B. 1976: Helminths from Elasmobranchs in Central American Fresh Waters. Investigations of the Ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan Lakes, Paper 52, 629-640. PDF
^Brinkmann, A. Jr. 1952. Fish trematodes from Norwegian waters. I. The history of fish trematode investigations in Norway and the Norwegian species of the order Monogenea. Universitetet i Bergen, Årbok. Naturvitenskapelig rekke (1), 1-134.
^ abCerfontaine, Paul. 1899: Contribution à l'étude des Octocotylidés. V. Les Onchocotylinae. Archives de Biologie, 16, 345-478 + Plates 18-21.