Microcotyle isyebi

The haptor is triangular, subsymmetrical or symmetrical, and bears 54–102 clamps, arranged in 2 equal or sub-equal lateral rows, one on each side.

There are also two septate oval buccal suckers at the anterior extremity, provided with a row of tiny papillae visible on ventral rims.

The digestive organs include an anterior, terminal mouth, a small subspherical pharynx, a long thin oesophagus without lateral diverticula and a posterior intestine that bifurcates at the level of the genital atrium in two lateral branches apparently fused just anterior to the haptor; the left branch extends into haptor for a short distance.

The atrium proper is shaped as an inverted heart, armed with numerous conical spines of similar sizes; the spines are denser in the centre than in lateral parts, arranged as one main anterior group and two postero-lateral smaller groups called “pockets”, a vagina with a middorsal pore visible in most specimens, posterior to genital atrium, a single complex ovary and 13–29 testes, subspherical to oval, post-ovarian, occurring in 2 rows generally intercaecal, limited to posterior half of body proper.

[1] The species name, isyebi refers to "ISYEB", an acronym for "Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité" as an acknowledgement of the help offered to the first author.

The bogue Boops boops is the type host of Microcotyle isyebi