Cercaria (genus)

This article is about the genus of flatworms. For the genus of single-celled organisms, see Euglena.

Cercaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Fellodistomidae
Genus:	Cercaria Müller, 1773

Cercaria is the name of a genus of trematodes in the subclass Digenea. It is used as a placeholder genus when the species description is based on the cercarial life stage and the adult forms are not known. ^[1]

List

Species: ^[2]

• Cercaria armata Tang, 1990
• Cercaria brevicaeca Cort, 1914
• Cercaria brookoveri Faust, 1918
• Cercaria burti Miller, 1923
• Cercaria caryi Cort, 1914
• Cercaria chrysenterica Miller, 1923
• Cercaria cloacicola Tang, 1990
• Cercaria columbiensis Edwards & Jansch, 1955
• Cercaria dermolestes McLeod, 1940
• Cercaria diastropha Cort, 1914
• Cercaria dipterocerca Miller & Northup, 1926
• Cercaria douglasi Cort, 1917
• Cercaria douthitti Cort, 1914
• Cercaria elegans Tang, 1992
• Cercaria elongata Brackett, 1940
• Cercaria elvae Miller, 1923
• Cercaria emarginatae Cort, 1917
• Cercaria gedoelsti Tang, 1990
• Cercaria gyrauli Brackett, 1940
• Cercaria hamata Miller, 1923
• Cercaria hemilophura Cort, 1914
• Cercaria hezuiensis Tang, 1996
• Cercaria himasthloides Tang, 1990
• Cercaria hongkongensis Tang, 1990
• Cercaria inhabilis Cort, 1914
• Cercaria isocotylea Cort, 1914
• Cercaria laevicardi
• Cercaria leptacantha Cort, 1914
• Cercaria linearis Lespès, 1857
• Cercaria littorinae Rees, 1935
• Cercaria longicauda Tang, 1990
• Cercaria magnicaudata Tang, 1990
• Cercaria megalura Cort, 1914
• Cercaria mesostephanus Tang, 1990
• Cercaria milfordensis Uzmann, 1953
• Cercaria minus Tang, 1990
• Cercaria mortoni Tang, 1990
• Cercaria multicellulata Miller, 1923
• Cercaria myae Uzmann, 1952
• Cercaria oregonensis Macfarlane & Macy, 1946
• Cercaria owreae (Hutton, 1954) Dawes, 1959
• Cercaria parvicaudata Stunkard & Shaw, 1931
• Cercaria pernaviridis Tang, 1992
• Cercaria pleurolophocerca Sonsino, 1892
• Cercaria polyadena Cort, 1914
• Cercaria reflexae Cort, 1914
• Cercaria rubra Cort, 1914
• Cercaria shanghaiensis Komiya, 1941
• Cercaria spelotremoides Tang, 1990
• Cercaria stagnicolae Talbot, 1936
• Cercaria sturniae Tanabe, 1951
• Cercaria tenax Müller, 1773
• Cercaria tenuis Miller, 1923
• Cercaria trigonura Cort, 1914
• Cercaria ubiquitoides Stunkard, 1932
• Cercaria viridis Müller, 1786
• Cercaria wardi Miller, 1923

References

1. "Cercaria Müller, 1773". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
2. "Cercaria Müller, 1773". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 20 October 2021.