Kritsky

Kritsky
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Diplostomida
Family:	Aporocotylidae
Genus:	Kritsky; Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016
Species:	K. platyrhynchi
Binomial name
	Kritsky platyrhynchi; (Guidelli, Isaac & Pavanelli, 2002) Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016

Short description: Genus of flukes

Kritsky is a genus of digeneans in the family Aporocotylidae or blood flukes.^[2] The name of the genus honours the American parasitologist Delane C. Kritsky.

The genus includes the single species Kritsky platyrhynchi (Guidelli, Isaac & Pavanelli, 2002) Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016, which is a parasite of the body cavity of the porthole shovelnose catfish, Hemisorubim platyrhynchos (Pimelodidae) in Peru.^[3]

References

↑ Guidelli, G. M.; Isaac, A.; Pavanelli, G. C. (2002). "Sanguinicola platyrhynchi n. sp. (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) parasite of visceral cavity of Hemisorubim platyrhynchos (Valenciennes, 1840) (Pisces: Pimelodidae) from the floodplain of the upper Paraná River, Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology 62 (4b): 801–806. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842002000500009.
↑ WoRMS (2018). Kritsky Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871002 on 2018-09-23
↑ Orélis-Ribeiro, Raphael; Bullard, Stephen A. (2016). "Two new genera of fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from catfishes in the Peruvian Amazon". Journal of Parasitology 102 (3): 357–368. doi:10.1645/15-905. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 26859799.

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[1] Guidelli, G. M.; Isaac, A.; Pavanelli, G. C. (2002). "Sanguinicola platyrhynchi n. sp. (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) parasite of visceral cavity of Hemisorubim platyrhynchos (Valenciennes, 1840) (Pisces: Pimelodidae) from the floodplain of the upper Paraná River, Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology 62 (4b): 801–806. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842002000500009.

[2] WoRMS (2018). Kritsky Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871002 on 2018-09-23

[Orélis-RibeiroBullard2016-3] Orélis-Ribeiro, Raphael; Bullard, Stephen A. (2016). "Two new genera of fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from catfishes in the Peruvian Amazon". Journal of Parasitology 102 (3): 357–368. doi:10.1645/15-905. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 26859799.