A family of nematode parasites of fish.
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Oral opening elongated dorsally
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Esophastome with bilateral symmetry
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Esophageal lumen reinforced with cuticularized rods
Cucullanus spp are sometimes classified in family
Chitwoodchabaudiidae as subfamily
Cucullaninae. However, the family designation Cucullanidae is more
generally accepted.
Stomal opening of male Cucullanus epinepheli
(from Moravec and Justine, 2017).
References
Moravec,
F. and Justine, J-L. 2017. Two new species of nematode parasites, Cucullanus
epinepheli sp. n. (Cucullanidae) and Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) sinespinis
sp. n. (Camallanidae), from marine serranid and haemulid fishes of
New Caledonia. Folia Parasitologica 64:011; doi: 10.14411/fp.2017.011
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