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The presence/absence and number of vaginae is a major characteristic for the systematics of the Monogenea. Three gastrocotylid genera share similar morphology and anatomy but are distinguished by this character:  Pseudaxine  Parona & Perugia, 1890 has no vagina,  Allogastrocotyle  Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1983 has two vaginae, and  Pseudaxinoides  Lebedev, 1968 has multiple vaginae. In the course of a study of  Pseudaxine trachuri  Parona & Perugia 1890, we found specimens with structures resembling “multiple vaginae”; we compared them with specimens without vaginae in terms of both morphology and molecular characterisitics (COI barcode), and found that they belonged to the same species. We also investigated the male copulatory organ (MCO) of this species, the accuracy of the original description of which is known to be a matter of debate. We found that the genital atrium is armed with 12 hooks arranged as a single circle and a central hollow stylet which is probably involved in traumatic insemination. We redescribed  Pseudaxine trachuri  based on newly collected specimens from off the coast of Algeria and Museum specimens from off France. Specimens from the type-host,  Trachurus trachurus,  were found to be similar, for both molecular sequences and morphology, to those found on  Boops boops . We can therefore confirm, for the first time with molecular evidence, that  B. boops  is a host of this parasite. We consider that  Pseudaxinoides  was erected on the basis of an erroneous interpretation of structures which are not vaginae and, consequently, propose the transfer of most of its species to  Pseudaxine,  as  P. australis  (Lebedev, 1968) n. comb.,  P. bychowskyi  (Lebedev, 1977) n. comb.,  P. caballeroi  (Lebedev, 1977) n. comb.,  P. cariacoensis  (Nasir & Fuentes-Zambrano, 1983) n. comb., and  P. vietnamensis  (Lebedev, Parukhin & Roitman, 1970) n. comb. We also propose  Allogastrocotyle dillonhargisorum  nom. nov. for  Pseudaxine bivaginalis  Dillon & Hargis, 1965 to avoid a secondary homonymy.

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No vagina, one vagina, or multiple vaginae? An integrative study of<i>Pseudaxine trachuri</i>(Monogenea, Gastrocotylidae) leads to a better understanding of the systematics of<i>Pseudaxine</i>and related genera

No vagina, one vagina, or multiple vaginae? An integrative study ofPseudaxine trachuri(Monogenea, Gastrocotylidae) leads to a better understanding of the systematics ofPseudaxineand related genera