Gastrocotylinae is a sub-family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans. All the species in this family are parasitic on fish.

Genera According to the Lebedev (1986) Lebedev, B.I. Monogenea: suborder Gastrocotylinea. Leningrad, USSR; Nauka (1986) 200pp.(In Russian) the sub-family includes 17 valid genera: Allogastrocotyle Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984 Nasir, P. & Fuentes, J.L. (1983) Algunos trematodos monogeneticos Venezolanos. Revista de Parasitologia, 44, 335-380. Amphipolycotyle Hargis, 1957 Areotestis Yamaguti, 1965 Yamaguti, S. (1965) New Monogenetic trematodes from Hawaiian fishes, I. Pacific Science, 19, 55–95. PDF Churavera Unnithan, 1968 Cypselurobranchitrema Yamaguti, 1966Yamaguti, S. (1966). New monogenetic trematodes from Hawaiian fishes, II. Pacific Science, 20(4), 419-434. Engraulicola George, 1960 George, K. C. (1960). On a new gastrocotylid trematode, Engraulicola forcipopenis gen. Et sp. Nov. On white-bait, from southern India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 2(2), 208-215. PDF Engrauliphila Unnithan, 1967 Engrauliscobina Unnithan, 1967 Engraulixenus Unnithan, 1967 Unnithan, R.V. (1967). On some gastrocotyline (monogenoidean) parasites of Indian clupeoid fishes, including three new genera. Pacific Science 21, 210–229 (1967) Eyelavera Unnithan, 1968 Gastrocotyle Beneden & Hesse, 1863 Van Beneden, P. J., & Hesse, C. E. (1863). Recherches sur les Bdellodes (Hirudinées) et les trématodes marins: Mémoire présenté à l'Académie Royale de Belgique. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 34, 1-150 + Plates. Irinaxine Ghichenok, 1980 Gichenok, LA. (1980). Description of two new genera of monogeneans, with a discussion of homology of the clamp parts in the family Gastrocotylinae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 593: 349-357, 1980. Pellonicola Unnithan, 1967 Pseudaxine Parona & Perugia, 1890 Parona, C. & Perugia, A. (1889) Intorno ad alcune Polystomeae. Atti della Societa Ligustica, 1, 225-242. Pseudaxinoides Lebedev, 1968 Lebedev, B.I. (1968) Monogenea from fishes of the New Zealand Australian shelf and the South China Sea (Monogenoidea: Gastrocotylidae, Gastrocotylinae). In: Mamaev, Yu.L., Helminths of animals of the Pacific Ocean. Nauka: Moscow, 46-55. Quadrivalvula Ghichenok, 1980 Sibitrema Yamaguti, 1966

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