Rev: 02/20/2024
Intestinal parasites of marine, brackish water and freshwater fish and eels throughout the world.
Synonyms:
Because of their rather similar morphology and the inadequate descriptions of many nominal species, it is practically impossible to make a detailed comparison among them. Some authors prefer to characterize these parasites according to their host groups or geographic regions (e.g., Petter, 1974)
General Characteristics:
A range of marine habitats. For example, Cucullanus austropacificus and C. gymnothoracis are described from fish inhabiting tropical reefs of the Indo-Pacific while C. incognitus is described from a deep-water fish occurring near the Chesterfield Islands and New Caledonia of the southwest Pacific Ocean (Moravec and Justine, 2018).
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 ishes of New Caledonia. Folia Parasitologica 64:011; doi: 10.14411/fp.2017.011
Moravec, F., Justine, J.L. 2018. Three new species of Cucullanus (Nematoda: Cucullanidae) from marine fishes off New Caledonia, with a key to the species of Cucullanus from Anguilliformes. Parasite 25:51; doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018050
Moravec, F., Justine, J-L. 2019. New species and new records of camallanid nematodes (Nematoda, Camallanidae) from marine fishes and sea snakes in New Caledonia. Parasite 26:66; doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2019068
Ndew, D.E., Diouf, M. Ba, C.T., Morand, S. 2014. A New Species of Cucullanus (Nematoda: Cucullaninae, Cucullanidae) from Mugil curema (Mugilidae) in Senegal (West Africa). Comp Parasitol. 81:15-22
Petter A.-J. 1974: Essai de classiication de la famille des Cucullanidae. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris, 3e ser., No. 255, Zoologie 177:1469-1490
Copyright 1999 by Howard Ferris. Revised: February 20, 2024.