by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 13, 2014
Cryptocotyle concavum (Creplin, 1825) Lühe, 1899 This species of Cryptocotyle was named "concavum” for its concave body shape. A synonym is Cryptocotyle echinata (Linstow, 1878) for this first species of Cryptocotyle to be described. Specimens have been collected from...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 13, 2014
Cryptocotyle quinqueangularis (Skrjabin, 1923) ETYMOLOGY:Crypto (hidden) + cotyle (disk) [for the small ventral sucker being incorporated, hidden within, the muscular a ring of small spines around the oral opening] and quinqueangularis for the five-sided nature of...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 13, 2014
Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825) Fischoeder, 1903 ETYMOLOGY:Crypto (hidden) + cotyle (disk) [for the small ventral sucker being incorporated, hidden within, the muscular a ring of small spines around the oral opening] and lingua for the tongue-like shape of the...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 13, 2014
CRYPTOCOTYLINAE This subfamily of Heterophyids is characterized by the possession of a large genital atrium that incorporates the ventral sucker. There are three species of this parasite that have been recovered from the...
