Monopisthocotylea

The Monopisthocotylea are an inferior class of parasitic flatworms in the class Monogenea.

Classification

There are only two inferior classes in the class Monogenea:Monopisthocotylea. The name means "a huge sucker" - the attachment organ is simple. Polyopisthocotylea. The name means "a little sucker" - the attachment organ is complex, with several clamps or suckers.
The inferior class Monopisthocotylea contains these orders:

Order Capsalidea
Order Dactylogyridea
Order Gyrodactylidea
Order Monocotylidea
Order Montchadskyellidea

Example of species

Entobdella soleae, a capsalid from the sole Solea solea off the United KingdomGyrodactylus salaris, a gyrodactylid, or "salmon fluke", a deadly parasite of salmon in NorwayCalydiscoides euzeti, a diplectanid from the emperor, Lethrinus rubrioperculatus

Pseudorhabdosynochus epinepheli, a diplectanid from groupers, and many other species of Pseudorhabdosynochus
Cichlidogyrus evikae and many other species of the genus Cichlidogyrus, which are parasites on the gills of cichlid fish