Erpocotyle macrohystera Price, 1942
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Erpocotyle macrohystera Price, 1942
- Name authority
- Price, 1942
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Class
- Monogenea
- Order
- Diclybothriidea
- Family
- Hexabothriidae
- Genus
- Erpocotyle
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumPlatyhelminthes Minot, 1876
- subphylumRhabditophora Ehlers, 1985
- classMonogenea Van Beneden, 1858
- subclassPolyopisthocotylea Odhner, 1912
- orderDiclybothriidea
- familyHexabothriidae Price, 1942
- genusErpocotyle Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863
- speciesErpocotyle macrohystera Price, 1942
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Erpocotyle. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Erpocotyle antarctica (Hughes, 1928) Price, 1942 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle canis (Cerfontaine, 1899) Price, 1942 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle carcharhini Watson & Thorson, 1976 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle caribbensis Watson & Thorson, 1976 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle francai Tendeiro in Tendeiro & Valdez, 1955 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle ginglymostomae (Brooks, 1934) Yamaguti, 1963 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle laevis Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle maccallumi (Price, 1942) Yamaguti, 1963 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle sphyrnae (MacCallum, 1931) Price, 1942 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erpocotyle tiburonis (Brooks, 1934) Yamaguti, 1963 | HexabothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Squalonchocotyle vulgaris of MacCallum, 1931 nec Cerfontaine, 1899 of MacCallum, 1931 | misapplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Price, E. W. (1942). North American monogenetic trematodes. V. The family Hexabothriidae, n. n . (Polystomatoidea). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 9 (2), 39–56. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3B9GH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.