Cryptocotyle Explained

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)

Notes and References

1. Duflot . Maureen . Cresson . Pierre . Julien . Maéva . Chartier . Léa . Bourgau . Odile . Palomba . Marialetizia . Mattiucci . Simonetta . Midelet . Graziella . Gay . Mélanie . 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 . 2023 . 10.1051/parasite/2023028 . 28. 37417833 . 10327545 .