Cryptocotyle
Sign in to saveCryptocotyle 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".
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Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Cryptocotyle, and connects out to Trematoda, Animalia and bird.
It sits within the topics Heterophyidae and Plagiorchiida genera.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- ClassTrematoda
- OrderPlagiorchiida
- FamilyOpisthorchiidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 50
- Family
- Opisthorchiidae
- Collections
- YPM, USNM, NHMUK, GNM, MSB
- Recorded in
- United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Cryptocotyle 1.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Cryptocotyle
- taxon name
- Cryptocotyle
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Cryptocotyle
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Trematoda
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Animalia
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bird
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mammal
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genus
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taxonomy
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Wikispecies
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Platyhelminthes
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PubMed
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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synonym
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Integrated Taxonomic Information System
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PubMed Central
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open access
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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host organism
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World Register of Marine Species
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iNaturalist
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