Cucullanus

{{Short description|Genus of roundworms}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Parasite160062-fig2 - Nematode parasites of four species of Carangoides - Cucullanus bulbosus (drawings).png | image_caption = ''Cucullanus bulbosus'' | taxon = Cucullanus | authority = O.F. Müller, 1777 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision =

(among more than 100 species)

[[File:13 Cucullanus cirratus.tif|thumb|left|''Cucullanus cirratus'', scanning electron microscope photograph of the head (with added colours)]] '''''Cucullanus''''' is a genus of parasitic nematodes.<ref name=Shamsi2016>Shamsi, S. (2016). ''Cucullanus'' Müller, 1777. In: Guilini, K.; Bezerra, T.N.; Deprez, T.; Fonseca, G.; Holovachov, O.; Leduc, D.; Miljutin, D.; Moens, T.; Sharma, J.; Smol, N.; Tchesunov, A.; Mokievsky, V.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M. (2016) NeMys: World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22861 on 2016-09-03</ref><ref name="VieiraPereira2015">{{cite journal|last1=Vieira|first1=Fabiano M.|last2=Pereira|first2=Felipe B.|last3=Pantoja|first3=Camila|last4=Soares|first4=Iris A.|last5=Pereira|first5=Aldenice N.|last6=Timi|first6=Juan T.|last7=Scholz|first7=Tomáš|last8=Luque|first8=José L.|title=A survey of nematodes of the genus ''Cucullanus'' Müller, 1777 (Nematoda, Seuratoidea) parasitic in marine fishes off Brazil, including description of three new species|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4039|issue=2|year=2015|pages=289–311|issn=1175-5334|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4039.2.5|pmid=26624480|hdl=11336/50783 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> The genus includes more than 100 species.<ref name=Shamsi2016/><ref>Petter, A. J., & Le Bel, J. (1992). Two new species in the genus ''Cucullanus'' (Nematoda-Cucullanidae) from the Australian Region. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 87, 201-206. [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/mioc/v87s1/vol87(fsup1)_205-210.pdf PDF] {{open access}}</ref><ref name="MoravecJustine2017">{{cite journal|last1=Moravec|first1=František|last2=Justine|first2=Jean-Lou|title=Two new species of nematode parasites, ''Cucullanus epinepheli'' sp. n. (Cucullanidae) and ''Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) sinespinis'' sp. n. (Camallanidae), from marine serranid and haemulid fishes off New Caledonia|journal=Folia Parasitologica|volume=64|year=2017|issn=0015-5683|doi=10.14411/fp.2017.011|pmid=28402282|doi-access=free|hdl=11104/0275170|hdl-access=free}} {{open access}}</ref><ref name="MoravecJustine2018">{{cite journal|last1=Moravec|first1=František|last2=Justine|first2=Jean-Lou|title=Three new species of ''Cucullanus'' (Nematoda: Cucullanidae) from marine fishes off New Caledonia, with a key to species of ''Cucullanus'' from Anguilliformes|journal=Parasite|volume=25|year=2018|pages=51|issn=1776-1042|doi=10.1051/parasite/2018050|url= |pmid=30234482|pmc=6146675}} {{open access}}</ref><ref name="MoravecJustine2019">{{cite journal|last1=Moravec|first1=František|last2=Justine|first2=Jean-Lou|title=''Dichelyne (Cucullanellus) bodiani'' n. sp. and ''Cucullanus hansoni'' Olsen, 1952 (Nematoda: Cucullanidae) from fishes off New Caledonia|journal=Systematic Parasitology|volume=96|issue=3|year=2019|pages=299–310|issn=0165-5752|doi=10.1007/s11230-019-09850-2|pmid=30891670 |s2cid=255068563 }}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="MoravecJustine2020">{{cite journal|last1=Moravec|first1=František|last2=Justine|first2=Jean-Lou|title=New records of cucullanid nematodes from marine fishes off New Caledonia, with descriptions of five new species of ''Cucullanus'' (Nematoda, Cucullanidae)|journal=Parasite|volume=27|year=2020|pages=37|issn=1776-1042|doi=10.1051/parasite/2020030| pmc=7236544|pmid=32425154|doi-access=free}} {{open access}}</ref>

Among the species, ''Cucullanus cirratus'' is a parasite of cod.<ref name="Perdiguero-AlonsoMontero2008">{{cite journal|last1=Perdiguero-Alonso|first1=Diana|last2=Montero|first2=Francisco E|last3=Raga|first3=Juan|last4=Kostadinova|first4=Aneta|title=Composition and structure of the parasite faunas of cod, ''Gadus morhua'' L. (Teleostei: Gadidae), in the North East Atlantic|journal=Parasites & Vectors|volume=1|issue=1|year=2008|pages=23|issn=1756-3305|doi=10.1186/1756-3305-1-23|pmid=18638387|pmc=2503959 |doi-access=free }}</ref> ''Cucullanus genypteri'' is a parasite of the pink cusk-eel, ''Genypterus blacodes''.<ref name="SardellaNavone2014">{{cite journal|last1=Sardella|first1=N.H.|last2=Navone|first2=G.T.|last3=Timi|first3=J.T.|title=A new species of ''Cucullanus'' (Nematoda: Cucullanidae) parasite of ''Genypterus blacodes'' and ''G. brasiliensis'' (Pisces: Ophidiidae) in the South West Atlantic|journal=Parasite|volume=4|issue=1|year=2014|pages=41–47|issn=1252-607X|doi=10.1051/parasite/1997041041|doi-access=free}} {{open access}}</ref>

Two species known as ''C. pybusae'' and ''C. stelmoides'' were discovered in 1978 inhabiting the liver and intestines of the American brook lamprey.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=Roy|title=Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates: Their Development and Transmission|url=https://archive.org/details/nematodeparasite00ande|url-access=limited|date=2000|pages=[https://archive.org/details/nematodeparasite00ande/page/n277 257]|isbn=9780851994215 }}</ref>

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