Cryptocotyle
Sign in to saveCryptocotyle 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".
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It sits within the topics Heterophyidae and Plagiorchiida genera.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- ClassTrematoda
- OrderPlagiorchiida
- FamilyOpisthorchiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 50
- Family
- Opisthorchiidae
- Collections
- YPM, USNM, NHMUK, GNM, MSB
- Recorded in
- United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia
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- Cryptocotyle 1.jpg
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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".
==Species== 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)
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