[1] Microcotyle visa was described and illustrated by Bouguerche et al., based on and 31 specimens (including three with molecular information), from the gills of the bluespotted seabream Pagrus caeruleostictus (Sparidae) collected at Bouharoune off the Algerian coast.

included in the molecular analysis was nested in a robust Microcotyle-Paramicrocotyle clade and Paramicrocotyle was considered a junior synonym of Microcotyle.

The haptor is subsymmetrical or symmetrical, and bears 59–126 clamps, arranged in 2 equal or sub-equal lateral rows, one on each side.

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

The atrium proper is shaped as inverted heart, armed with numerous conical spines of similar sizes; the spines are more dense 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 14–29 testes, post-ovarian, occurring in 2 rows generally intercaecal, in posterior half of body proper.