Species Decacotyle floridana (Pratt, 1910)

Museums

Monocotyle floridana Pratt, H.S. 1910. Monocotyle floridana, a new monogenetic trematode. Pap Tortugas Lab. 4. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 133: 1-9.
Type data:

Status unknown, BMNH 1997.11.13.1–2 2 specimens, Heron Island, GBR, Qld; QM G214007-09 3 specimens, Heron Island, GBR, Qld; USNPC 87548, Heron Island, GBR, Qld; USNPC 39582 3 cotypes on 3 slides, Heron Island, GBR, Qld; USNPC 49447 6 types on 2 slides, Heron Island, GBR, Qld; USNPC 36968 16 specimens on 2 slides, Heron Island, GBR, Qld.
Type host:
Aetobatus fremenvilli Lesueur [MYLIOBATIDAE]
Heterocotyle floridana Price, E.W. 1938. North American trematodes. II. The families Monocotylidae, Microbothriidae, Acanthocotyle and Udonellidae (Capsaloidea). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 28(3-4): 109-129; 183-198.
Heterocotyle aetobatis Hargis, W.J. Jr 1955. Monogenetic trematodes of Gulf of Mexico fishes. Part V. The superfamily Capsaloidea. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 74: 203-225.
Papillicotyle floridana Young, P.C. 1967. A taxonomic revision of the subfamilies Monocotylinae Gamble, 1896 and Dendromonocotylinae Hargis, 1955 (Monogenoidea: Monocotylidae). Journal of Zoology, London 153: 381-422.

Queensland

Heron Island.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Adult: ectoparasitic (host(s): Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasén, 1790) [MYLIOBATIDAE] Whitespotted Eagle Ray).

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Dec-2023	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Storm Martin
05-Aug-2022	MONOCOTYLIDEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
02-Nov-2018	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
27-Jul-2017	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
		11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED