{{short description|Species of worm}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Microcotyle | species = tanago | authority = Yamaguti, 1940 <ref name="Yamaguti1940a"/> | synonyms = *''Paramicrocotyle tanago'' <small>(Yamaguti, 1940) Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1972</small><ref name="Caballero1972"/> }}
'''''Microcotyle tanago''''' is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.<ref name="Yamaguti1940a">Yamaguti, S. (1940). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 31. Trematodes of fishes, VII. Japanese Journal of Zoology 9: 35–108, 2 pls.</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Microcotyle tanago'' was first described by Yamaguti in 1940 based on a single mature specimen.<ref name="Yamaguti1940a"/> Caballero y Caballero and Bravo-Hollis erected the genus ''Paramicrocotyle'' to describe ''Paramicrocotyle tampicensis'' and ''Paramicrocotyle atriobursata'' off Mexico, they placed within this genus 16 species previously assigned to the genus ''Microcotyle''<ref name="Mendoza-FrancoRosado Tun2018">{{cite journal|last1=Mendoza-Franco|first1=Edgar F.|last2=Rosado Tun|first2=Mariela del Carmen|last3=Duarte Anchevida|first3=Allan de Jesús|last4=del Rio Rodríguez|first4=Rodolfo E.|title=Morphological and molecular (28S rRNA) data of monogeneans (Platyhelminthes) infecting the gill lamellae of marine fishes in the Campeche Bank, southwest Gulf of Mexico|journal=ZooKeys|issue=783|year=2018|pages=125–161|issn=1313-2970|doi=10.3897/zookeys.783.26218|pmid=30275730|pmc=6160863|doi-access=free|bibcode=2018ZooK..783..125M }}</ref> including ''M. tanago''.<ref name="Caballero1972">Caballero y Caballero, E., & Bravo-Hollis, M. (1972). Monogenea (van Beneden, 1858) Carus, 1863 de peces marinos del litoral Mexicano del Golfo de Mexico y del Mar Caribe.V. Revista de Biología Tropical, 20, 151–165. [https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/download/27339/27448/.pdf PDF] {{open access}}</ref> It was returned to the genus ''Microcotyle'' by Mamaev who considered ''Paramicrocotyle'' a junior subjective synonym of ''Microcotyle''.<ref name="Mamaev1986">Mamaev, Y. L. (1986). The taxonomical composition of the family Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879 (Monogenea). Folia Parasitologica, 33, 199–206. [https://folia.paru.cas.cz/pdfs/fol/1986/03/02.pdf PDF] {{open access}}</ref>
==Hosts and localities== [[File:Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.ART.478 - Ditrema temminckii Bleeker - Kawahara Keiga - 1823 - 1829 - Siebold Collection - pencil drawing - water colour.jpeg|thumb|left|The type-host of ''Microcotyle tanago'' is ''Ditrema temminckii temminckii'']] The type-host of ''Microcotyle tanago'' is ''Ditrema temminckii temminckii'' (Embiotocidae). The type-locality is off Tarumi, Japan.<ref name="Yamaguti1940a"/>
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Category:Microcotyle Category:Animals described in 1940 Category:Parasites of fish Category:Fauna of Japan