Pseudorhamnocercoides is a genus of monogeneans in the family Diplectanidae.[1][2] The genus is monospecific, containing the single species Pseudorhamnocercoides stichospinus.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Monogenea |
| Order: | Dactylogyridea |
| Family: | Diplectanidae |
| Genus: | Pseudorhamnocercoides Chero, Cruces, Sáez, Iannacone & Luque, 2017 |
| Species: | P. stichospinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudorhamnocercoides stichospinus (Seamster & Monaco, 1956) Chero, Cruces, Sáez, Iannacone & Luque, 2017
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Etymology edit
The generic name refers "to the several misidentifications of the single species of the new genus as Rhamnocercoides".[2]
References edit
- ^ WoRMS (2018). Pseudorhamnocercoides Chero, Cruces, Sáez, Iannacone & Luque, 2017. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1036539 on 2018-12-23
- ^ a b Chero, Jhon D.; Cruces, Celso L.; Sáez, Gloria; Iannacone, José; Luque, José L. (2017). "Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on sciaenid fish from Peru with the proposal of Pseudorhamnocercoides n. gen., the description of Rhamnocercus dominguesi n. sp. and the redescription of Rhamnocercoides menticirrhi Luque and Iannacone, 1991". Acta Parasitologica. 62 (3): 541–548. doi:10.1515/ap-2017-0065. ISSN 1896-1851. PMID 28682761. S2CID 2611260.
- ^ Seamster, Aaron, & Monaco, Lawrence H. (1956). A new species of Rhamnocercinae. American Midland Naturalist, 180-183. PDF in JSTOR
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