Microcotyle victoriae

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

The haptor is symmetrical, distinctly separated from body proper and bears 17-25 pairs of clamps, arranged as two rows, one on each side.

The digestive organs include an anterior, terminal mouth with a folded ventral lip, a small and spherical muscular pharynx, and a posterior intestine with two lateral branches of unequal length.

[3] Woolcock (1936) gave drawings of the female genital organs (diagrammatic) and of the arrangement of atrial spines.

[3] The type-host and only recorded host of Microcotyle victoriae is the red gurnard perch or jock stewart, Helicolenus percoides (Sebastidae).

The type-host of Microcotyle victoriae is the red gurnard perch or jock stewart, Helicolenus percoides