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Genus of flukes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Plagiorchiida |
Family: | Heterophyidae |
Genus: | Cryptocotyle Lühe, 1899 |
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