Cryptocotyle

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

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

^ 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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"Cryptocotyle". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.