Gyrodactylidea

Gyrodactylidea
	Gyrodactylus alexanderi found on Gasterosteus aculeatus (three-spined stickleback)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Subclass:	Monopisthocotylea
Order:	Gyrodactylidea
Families
	Acanthocotylidae Monticelli, 1903; Anoplodiscidae Tagliani, 1912; Bothitrematidae Price, 1936; Gyrodactylidae; Tetraonchoididae; Udonellidae Taschenberg, 1879;

Gyrodactylidea is an order of monogenean parasitic flatworms in the subclass Monopisthocotylea.^[1]

References

^ Recherches sur les affinités phylétiques des vers parasites Gyrodactylidea (Monogenea). A Lambert, CR Acad. Sci., Paris, 1979

Nestedness in assemblages of gyrodactylids (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidea) parasitising two species of cyprinid – with reference to generalists and specialists. Matĕjusová I, Morand S and Gelnar M., International Journal for Parasitology, Volume 30, Issue 11, October 2000, Pages 1153-1158, doi:10.1016/S0020-7519(00)00097-7

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