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Cucullanellus

Description

Key to species of Cucullanellus

1 Cuticle 0.020-0.050 thick; mouth opening slightly inclined dorsally................................... C. cotylophora

- Cuticle thinner than 0.020; mouth opening transverse to body axis............................................. 2

2 Ventral intestinal caecum not reaching nerve ring.................................................... C. kanabus

- Ventral intestinal caecum reaches nerve ring, its apex sometimes double.................................. C. minutus

Notes

Published as part of Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 4185 (1) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Nematoda
Order
Ascaridida
Family
Cucullanidae
Genus
Cucullanellus
Taxon rank
genus