Neodiplectanum
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| Neodiplectanum | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Monogenea |
| Order: | Dactylogyridea |
| Family: | Diplectanidae |
| Genus: | Neodiplectanum Mizelle & Blatz, 1941 |
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Neodiplectanum is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans, belonging to the family Diplectanidae.[1][2] According to Mizelle & Blatz (1941), the genus Neodiplectanum "differs from Diplectanum Diesing, 1858, its closest relative, by the presence of two, instead of three, cuticular bars on the haptor".[1] Oliver (1987)[3] thought that the two genera were synonyms, but Neodiplectanum was resurrected later.[4]
Species of Neodiplectanum are parasitic on the gills of fish of the family Gerreidae.[4]