Cucullanus

(among more than 100 species) Truttaedacnitis Petter 1974 Cucullanus is a genus of parasitic nematodes.

[1][3][4][5][6][7] Among the species, Cucullanus cirratus is a parasite of cod.

[8] Cucullanus genypteri is a parasite of the pink cusk-eel, Genypterus blacodes.

[9] Two species known as C. pybusae and C. stelmoides were discovered in 1978 inhabiting the liver and intestines of the American brook lamprey.

This Chromadorea nematode (or roundworm-) related article is a stub.

Cucullanus cirratus , scanning electron microscope photograph of the head (with added colours)