Cryptocotyle
Genus of flukes
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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]
| Cryptocotyle | |
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| The metacercariae, encysted in the fins of the round goby | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Family: | Heterophyidae |
| Genus: | Cryptocotyle Lühe, 1899 |
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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)
