IBSS Collection of Marine Parasites
Marine parasites → Platyhelminthes → Monogenea → Gyrodactylidea → Gyrodactylidae → Polyclithrum →

Polyclithrum ponticum Gerasev, Dmitrieva, Gaevskaya, 2002 parasite in collection

whole-mount
haptoral structures
marginal hooks

Type host

Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality

Black Sea, Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol

Bibliography

First published in

Gerasev P. I., Dmitrieva E. V., Gaevskaia A. V. 2002. Polyclithrum ponticum sp. n. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae: Polyclithrinae) from Mugil cephalus from the Black Sea and problems of suprageneric systematics of the gyrodactylids. Parazitologiia. 36(5). P. 396-404. (in Russian).

Specimens in collection

exemplar found in host
733.M.ii.h holotype adult wholemount 1990-02-20 Black Sea, Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol Mugil cephalus
733.M.ii.p1 paratype adult wholemount 1990-02-20 Black Sea, Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol Mugil cephalus

Platybothrium

Polyclithrum mugilini Rogers, 1967
Polyclithrum ponticum Gerasev, Dmitrieva, Gaevskaya, 2002

Pomphorhynchus