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They are parasites of fish from freshwater, marine, and brackish water habitat types. [2] The name Bucephalus, meaning "ox head", was originally applied to the genus Bucephalus because of the horn-like appearance of the forked tail (furcae) of its cercaria larva. By what Manter calls a "curious circumstance", horns are also suggested by the ...
Bucephalus (lit. ' ox head ') is the genus name for many trematode flatworms that are parasites of molluscs and fish. Like other Bucephalidae, they are found in fish both as adults and as metacercariae. In marine and freshwater teleosts, they live as parasites inside the digestive tract, especially the intestine. [4]
Bucephalus polymorphus is a type of flatworm. ... The adults occur in the gut of marine and fresh-water fish. The metacercariae encyst in smaller fish, sometimes in ...
The Bucephaloidea are a superfamily of trematode flatworms, belonging to the large group Digenea.Many species are endoparasites of mollusks and fish.The name Bucephalus meaning "ox head" was originally applied to the genus Bucephalus because of the horn-like appearance of the forked tail (furcae) of its cercaria larva.
Metacercariae of Clinostomum phalacrocoracis in fish [2] Bucephalid cercaria larva from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904): The tail's furcae (forked structures) give the impression of horns, hence the genus name Bucephalus meaning "ox head". While the details vary with each species, the general life cycle stages are:
Bucephalus mytili is a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda. [1] It is a parasite of fish and a parasitic castrator of the mussel Mytilus edulis, where it destroys the mussel's gonads and causes the mussel to grow much larger than normal. [2] The cercaria of B. mytili were described in 1935 occurring in Mytilus edulis in Wales.
The bighead spurdog (Squalus bucephalus) is a rare and little-known species of dogfish shark in the family Squalidae. It is found in deep water south of New Caledonia, and over the Norfolk Ridge. Reaching at least 90 cm (35 in) in length, this stocky shark is brown above and light below, with a broad head and two dorsal fins with long spines.
Bucephala clangula Pair Female goldeneye with chicks. The common goldeneye or simply goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes.