Discocotylidae Price, 1936

Kohn, Anna, Cohen, Simone C. & Salgado-Maldonado, Guillermo, 2006, Checklist of Monogenea parasites of freshwater and marine fishes, amphibians and reptiles from Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, Zootaxa 1289 (1289), pp. 1-114 : 53

Family Discocotylidae Price, 1936

Bicotylophora trachinoti (Mac Callum, 1921) Price, 1936

Syn: Dactylocotyle trachinoti Mac Callum, 1921

Hosts, site and localities:

Trachinotus carolinus (gills)

Veracruz and Quintana Roo ( Caballero & Bravo­Hollis 1965b; Bravo­Hollis 1984b), Mexico

Trachinotus falcatus (Linnaeus) (gills)

Quintana Roo ( Bravo­Hollis 1984b) , Mexico

Trachinotus kennedyi Steindachner (gills)

Trachinotus rhodopus (Gill) (gills)

Sinaloa and Nayarit (Bravo­Hollis 1986), Mexico

Remarks: Amato (1994) considered these specimens as Pseudobicotylophora atlantica Amato, 1994 .

Octomacrum mexicanum Lamothe­Argumedo, 1980

Host, site and localities:

Algansea lacustris (gills)

Michoacán ( Lamothe­Argumedo 1980; Mendoza­Garfias et al. 1996; Pérez­ Ponce de León, García­Prieto et al. 2000), Mexico

Pseudobicotylophora atlantica Amato, 1994

Host, site and localities:

Trachinotus carolinus (gills)

Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo ( Sánchez­Ramírez and Vidal­Martínez 2002) , Mexico

Pseudobicotylophora lopez­ochoterenai Lamothe­Argumedo & Pulido, 1997

Host, site and locality:

Trachinotus rodophus (gills)

Jalisco ( Lamothe­Argumedo & Pulido­Flores 1997), Mexico