Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Opisthorchiata > Superfamily Opisthorchioidea > Family Opisthorchiidae > Subfamily Cryptocotylinae > Genus Cryptocotyle

Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825) Fischoeder, 1903

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

CryptocotyleLühe, 1899accepted genus name
Ciureana Skrjabin, 1923 synonym
Tocotrema Looss, 1899 synonym

Species group names

Distoma lingua Creplin, 1825 synonym

Literature

basis of record

Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 136-142

additional source

Naidenova, N.N. (1974). Parazitofauna ryb semeystva bychkovykh Chernogo i Azovskogo morey. [Parasitofauna of fishes of the Family Gobiidae of the Black Sea and of the Sea of Asov. ]. Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSSR, Alexander Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Kiev. 182 pp.

additional source

Krupenko, D. Y.; Krapivin, V. A.; Gonchar, A. G. (2016). Muscle system in rediae and daughter sporocysts of several digeneans. Zoomorphology. 135 (4): 405–418.

additional source

Ronald, K. (1960). The metazoan parasites of the Heterosomata of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. VI. Digrenea. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 38: 923–937.

additional source

Shotter, R.A. (1976). The distribution of some helminth and copepod parasites in tissues of whiting, Merlangius merlangus L., from Manx waters. Journal of Fish Biology. 8: 101–117.

additional source

Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.

additional source

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

additional source

Køie, M. (1984). Digenetic trematodes from Gadus morhua L. (Osteichthyes, Gadidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 23 (2): 195-222.

additional source

Ching, H. L. (1960). Some digenetic trematodes of shore birds at Friday Harbor, Washington. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 27 (1): 53–62.

additional source

Oshmarin, P. G. (1963). Helminth parasites of mammals and birds in the region of Primorye. Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR: Moscow, 323 pp. (In Russian).

additional source

Køie, M. (1983). Digenetic trematodes from Limanda limanda (L.) (Osteichthyes, Pleuronectidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 22 (2): 201-228.

additional source

Smogorzhevskaya, L.A. (1976). Helminths of diving and marsh birds of the fauna of the Ukraine. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 415 pp. (In Russian).

additional source

Linton, E. (1928). Notes on trematode parasites of birds. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 73, 1–36.

additional source

Reimer, L. (2002). Parasitische Würmer (Helminthen) von Seevögeln der Ostseeküste. Seevogel. 23 (3): 66–76.

additional source

Tolstenkov, O.; Chatzigeorgiou, M.; Gorbushin, A. (2023). Neuronal gene expression in two generations of the marine parasitic worm, Cryptocotyle lingua. Communications Biology. 6(1).

additional source

Ching, H. L. (1978). New marine hosts for Parorchis acanthus, Cryptocotyle lingua, Maritrema megametrios, and Maritrema gratiosum, trematodes of birds from British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 56 (8): 1877–1879.

additional source

Rayski, C.; Fahmy, M. A. M. (1962). Investigation on some trematodes of birds from the East Scotland. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde. 22: 186–195.

additional source

Leonov, V. A., Belogurov, O. I., Shagvaleeva, N. M., Bondarenko, S. K. (1965). On the trematode fauna of fish-eating birds in Kamchatka. In: Leonov, V. A., Mamaev, Y. L., Oshmarin, P. G. (Eds.). Parasitic woгms оf dоmеstic and wild animals. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 130–158. (In Russian).

additional source

Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

additional source

Anikieva, L.; Ieshko, E. (2017). An annotated species list of parasites found in European smelt Osmerus eperlanus (L.). Transactions of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences. (7): 73–92.

additional source

Linton, E. (1940). Trematodes from fishes mainly from the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 88: 1-172.

additional source

Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pichelin, S., Herniou, E.A. (2001). The Digenea. In: Littlewood, D.T.J. & Bray, R.A. (Eds). Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. London: Taylor & Francis, 168-185.

additional source

Rahimian, H. (2007). Parasites of fingerling herring Clupea harengus L.: ecology and fine morphology. Journal of Helminthology 81(2):199-217.

redescription

Sudarikov, V. E., Shigin, A. A., Kurochkin, Y. V., Lomakin, V. V., Stenko, R. P., Yurlova, N. I. (2002). Trematode metacercariae - Parasites of freshwater hydrobionts in central Russia. Volume 1. Moscow, Nauka, 298 pp. (In Russian).

redescription

Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).

redescription

Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.

redescription

Duflot, M.; Gay, M.; Midelet, G.; Kania, P. W.; Buchmann, K. (2021). Morphological and molecular identification of Cryptocotyle lingua metacercariae isolated from Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from Danish seas and whiting (Merlangius merlangus) from the English Channel. Parasitology Research. 120(10): 3417-3427.

redescription

Semenova, N. N., Ivanov, V. P., Ivanov, V. M. (2007). Parasitic fauna and diseases of fishes of the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan: ASTU Press, 559 pp. (In Russian).

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Dubois, G., Mahon, J. (1959). Étude de quelques trématodes Nord-Américains (avec note sur la position systématique de Parorchis Nicoll 1907) suivie d'une revision des genres Galactosomum Looss 1899 et Ochetosoma Braun 1901. Bulletin de la Société Neuchateloise des Sciences Naturelles. 82: 191–229.

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Naidenova, N. N. (1970). Parasitofauna of fishes from family Gobiidae from the Azov Sea. Biologiya Morya. 20, 84-113.

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Stunkard, H. W. (1983). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole, Massachusetts region, a review and a revision. Biological Bulletin. 164 (2): 143–162.

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Stunkard, H. W.; Shaw, C. R. (1931). The effect of dilution of sea water on the activity and longevity of certain marine cercariae, with description of two new species. Biological Bulletin. 61 (2): 242–271.

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Duflot, M.; Cresson, P.; Julien, M.; Chartier, L.; Bourgau, O.; Palomba, M.; Mattiucci, S.; Midelet, G.; Gay, M. (2023). Black spot diseases in seven commercial fish species from the English Channel and the North Sea: infestation levels, identification and population genetics of Cryptocotyle spp. Parasite. 30: 28.

redescription

Sonin, M. D. (1986). Keys to the identification of trematodes of fish-eating birds of the Palaearctic (opisthorchids, renicolids, strigeids). Nauka, Moscow.. 215 pp. (In Russian).

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Yamaguti, S. (1939). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 25. Trematodes of birds. Japanese Journal of Zoology. 8: 129–210.

redescription

Stunkard, H. W. (1970). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole Massachusetts Region. Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. 138: 66–76.

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Werding, B. (1969). Morphologie, Entwicklung und Okologie digener Trematoden-Larven der Strandschnecke Littorina littorea. Marine Biology. 3 (4): 306–333.

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Morozov, F. N. (1952). Trematode superfamily Heterophyoidea Faust, 1929. Skriabin K. I. Trematody zhivonykh i chekoveka (= Osnovy Trematodologii) [Trematodes of animals and humans. Fundamentals of trematodology]. 6: 152–615. (In Russian).

redescription

Yamaguti S. (1975). A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.

new combination reference

Fischoeder, F. (1903). Die Paramphistomiden der Säugethiere. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abt. Syst. 17 (4-6): 485–660.

biology source

Hoff, C. C. (1941). A case of correlation between infection of snail hosts with Cryptocotyle lingua and the habits of gulls. Journal of Parasitology. 27 (6): 539.

biology source

Ching, H. 1991. Lists of larval worms from marine invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 58: 57-68.

biology source

James, B. (1968). The occurrence of larval Digenea in ten species of intertidal prosobranch molluscs in Cardigan Bay. Journal of Natural History. 2 (3): 329–343.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825) Fischoeder, 1903. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109051

Dr. David Gibson. Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825) Fischoeder, 1903. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/fba4992b-c3b3-4cf5-943a-422e9950b1e9

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Occurrence

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Environment


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