Rhipidocotyle Diesing, 1907

Derbel, Hela, Châari, Manel & Neifar, Lassad, 2011, Redescription of Rhipidocotyle galeata (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea, Bucephalidae), the type species of Rhipidocotyle Diesing, 1907, Zoosystema 33 (2), pp. 133-139 : 134

Genus Rhipidocotyle Diesing, 1907

DIAGNOSIS. — Body covered with minute spines. Rhynchus simple, sucker-like, with dorsal hood; hood with or without associated lateral and/or frontal fleshy lobes. Mouth posterior to mid-body. Caecum sac-like, variably oriented from pharynx.Testes oblique or tandem.Seminal vesicle spherical to ovoid. Pars prostatica curved, never straight. Ovary pretesticular or lateral to anterior testis. Vitellarium in two fields, anterior to ovary or forming a contiguous arc at level of ovary. Excretory vesicle variable in length. In freshwater and marine fishes.