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Isancistrum

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Isancistrum is a genus of monogeneans in the family Gyrodactylidae. Unlike most monogeneans which are parasitic on fish or other vertebrates, species of Isancistrum are parasitic on squids (molluscs).^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c de Beauchamp, P. M. (1912). Isancistrum loliginis, n. g. n. sp., trématode parasite du calmar et l'existence de Solenocotyle chiajei Diesing. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 37, 96–99.
^ ^a ^b Llewellyn, J. (1984). The biology of Isancistrum subulatae n. sp., a monogenean parasitic on the squid, Alloteuthis subulata, at Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 64(2), 285–302.

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Isancistrum is a genus of monogeneans in the family Gyrodactylidae. Unlike most monogeneans which are parasitic on fish or other vertebrates, species of Isancistrum are parasitic on squids (molluscs).