Mazocraeidea

Mazocraeidea
File:Heteromicrocotyloides megaspinosus Body.jpg
Heteromicrocotyloides megaspinosus (Heteromicrocotylidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Subclass:	Polyopisthocotylea
Order:	Mazocraeidea Price, 1936
Families
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Clamps in various genera of Protomicrocotylidae. Black: additional sclerite, characteristic of the Mazocraeidea

Mazocraeidea is an order in the subclass Polyopisthocotylea within class Monogenea.

The species of this order have various structures in the clamps of their posterior attachment organ, including additional sclerites in the Gastrocotylidae and related families. However, these additional sclerites, and even the clamps themselves, are lacking in certain members of the family Protomicrocotylidae.

Families

according to PESI

• Anthocotylidae Bychowsky, 1957
• Axinidae Monticelli, 1903
• Chauhaneidae Euzet & Trilles, 1960
• Diclidophoridae Fuhrmann, 1928
• Diplozoidae
• Discocotylidae Price, 1936
• Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943
• Gotocotylidae Yamaguti, 1963
• Heteraxinidae Unnithan, 1957
• Hexostomatidae Price, 1936
• Mazocraeidae Price, 1936
• Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879
• Octolabeidae
• Plectanocotylidae Monticelli, 1903
• Protomicrocotylidae Johnston & Tiegs, 1922
• Pyragraphoridae Yamaguti, 1963

according to WoRMS

• Allodiscocotylidae
• Allopyragraphoridae
• Anchorophoridae
• Anthocotylidae
• Axinidae
• Bychowskicotylidae
• Chauhaneidae
• Diclidophoridae
• Diplozoidae
• Discocotylidae
• Gastrocotylidae
• Gotocotylidae
• Heteraxinidae
• Heteromicrocotylidae
• Hexostomatidae
• Macrovalvitrematidae
• Mazocraeidae
• Megamicrocotylidae
• Microcotylidae
• Monaxinoididae
• Neothoracocotylidae
• Octolabeidae
• Paramonaxinidae
• Plectanocotylidae
• Protomicrocotylidae
• Pseudodiclidophoridae
• Pterinotrematidae
• Pyragraphoridae
• Bicotylophoridae accepted as Discocotylidae
• Cemocotylidae accepted as Heteraxinidae
• Thoracocotylidae accepted as Neothoracocotylidae