Microcotyle bassensis is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish.

[1] It was redescribed by Woolcock in 1936 from specimens forwarded to him by Murray,[3] and by Dillon et al., (1985) who completed the original and subsequent redescription of the adult's morphology.

[2] Mamaev, in his revision of the family Microcotylidae, suppressed this combination, reassigned the species to the genus Microcotyle and considered Paramicrocotyle a junior subjective synonym of Microcotyle.

[6] The type-host is the Southern sand flathead Platycephalus bassensis (Platycephalidae ).

[6] Microcotyle bassensis was first described from fishes caught off Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.