Cryptocotyle
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Cryptocotyle | |
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The metacercariae, encysted in the fins of the round goby | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Plagiorchiida |
Family: | Heterophyidae |
Genus: | Cryptocotyle Lühe, 1899 |
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Cryptocotyle is a genus of trematodes from the family Heterophyidae. The definitive hosts of the parasites are fish-eating birds and mammals. The metacercariae are visible in the skin of infected fish as "black spots".[1]
Species
[edit]- Cryptocotyle americana Ciurea, 1924
- Cryptocotyle badamshini (Kurochkin, 1959)
- Cryptocotyle concava (Creplin, 1825)
- Cryptocotyle cryptocotyloides (Issaitschikow, 1923)
- Cryptocotyle delamurei (Jurachno, 1987)
- Cryptocotyle jejuna (Nicoll, 1907)
- Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825)
- Cryptocotyle macrorhinis (MacCallum, 1916)
References
[edit]- ^ Duflot, Maureen; Cresson, Pierre; Julien, Maéva; Chartier, Léa; Bourgau, Odile; Palomba, Marialetizia; Mattiucci, Simonetta; Midelet, Graziella; Gay, Mélanie (2023). "Black spot diseases in seven commercial fish species from the English Channel and the North Sea: infestation levels, identification and population genetics of Cryptocotyle spp". Parasite. 30: 28. doi:10.1051/parasite/2023028. PMC 10327545. PMID 37417833.
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