page_title: Microcotyle sebastis
section_title: Hosts and localities
hierarchical_section_title: Microcotyle sebastis / Hosts and localities
caption_attribution_description: Copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)
context_page_description: Microcotyle sebastis is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.
context_section_description: The type-host is Sebastes sp.Microcotyle sebastis was also reported on several (Sebastidae); the Korean rockfish Sebastes schelegelii, on the black rockfish Sebastes melanops, Sebastodes caurinus ( currently synonymised with the Copper rockfish Sebastes caurinus), Sebastodes maliger ( currently synonymised with the Quillback Rockfish Sebastes maliger)   Sebastes oblongus  the Blackbelly rosefish Helicolenus dactylopterus, and on the yellowtail rockfish Sebastes flavidus.
  Microcotyle sebastis was first described from fishes caught off Hakodate off Japan. 
  It was also reported from farms in Korea, off California, Puget Sound, off Japan, off Montenegro, Southeast Atlantic, and from the Pacific coast of North America.
  Note that Tongyoung is considered an endemic area of M. sebastis. When Stanley & Lee investigated parasites of yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidusfrom the Pacific coast of North America as potential biological tags for stock identification, they revealed that only Microcotyle sebastis showed a latitudinal cline with a prevalence increasing from 0- 10% in samples from central British Columbia, to 80 and 100% in those off and Oregon respectively.
caption: The Copper rockfish Sebastes caurinus is another Sebastidae recorded as host of Microcotyle sebastis
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