Mexicotyle mexicana (Meserve, 1938)

Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit, García-Prieto, Luis & León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De, 2017, Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Mexican aquatic vertebrates, Zoosystema 39 (4), pp. 501-598 : 561-562

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scientific name	Mexicotyle mexicana (Meserve, 1938)
status

Treatment

Mexicotyle mexicana (Meserve, 1938) View in CoL

Pseudaxine mexicana Meserve, 1938: 63 .

Mexicotyle mexicana View in CoL – Lebedev 1984: 20.

HOSTS. — Actinopterygii (gills).

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Colima. Manzanillo: Scomberomorus sierra (Lamothe-Argumedo et al. 1997b) **.

Guerrero. Zihuatanejo: S. sierra (Gómez del Prado 1977)**.

Jalisco. Bahía de Chamela: S. sierra (Pérez-Ponce de León et al. 1999)**.

Nayarit. San Blás: S. sierra (Lamothe-Argumedo et al. 1997b) .

Oaxaca. Tangola Tangola: S. sierra (Meserve 1938) .

Quintana Roo. Bahía de Chetumal: Scomberomorus maculatus (Aguirre-Macedo et al. 2007) .

Sonora. Bahía Cholla: Scomberomorus concolor (Rohde & Hayward 1999) ; Bahía de Guaymas: S. sierra (Lamothe-Argumedo et al. 1997b) .

Veracruz. Laguna de Sontecomapan: Scomberomorus brasiliensis (Bravo-Hollis 1989) ; Puerto de Veracruz: Scomberomorus cavalla (Bravo-Hollis 1953) .

SPECIMENS IN COLLECTIONS. — CNHE (242, 267, 301, 364-6, 3189, 5716); QM (G214591); USNM (009167, 216696)(H).

REMARK

The type host was identified as Scomberomorus maculatus but this species is not distributed in the Pacific Ocean (see Rohde & Hayward 1999).

NOTE

The following records of M. mexicana listed by Kohn et al. (2006) are not contained in their original references: S. brasiliensis , and S. cavalla from Sonora, Guerrero, and Nayarit; S. concolor from Veracruz, Guerrero, and Nayarit; S. maculatus from Oaxaca, and Veracruz; Scomberomorus regalis from Veracruz, Sonora, Guerrero, and Nayarit; and S. sierra from Veracruz.