Rhamnocercoides | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Monogenea |
Order: | Dactylogyridea |
Family: | Diplectanidae |
Genus: | Rhamnocercoides Luque & Iannacone, 1991 |
Species | |
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Rhamnocercoides is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans, belonging to the family Diplectanidae.[1][2] All species of Rhamnocercoides are parasites of marine perciform fishes of the family Sciaenidae.
The generic name is based "in the morphological similarity with the genus Rhamnocercus".[1]
According to the World Register of Marine Species,[2] two species are included in the genus: