Cercaria

Belongs within: Trematoda.

Cercaria is a form genus used for the free-swimming larval stages of digenean flukes, particularly those for which the mature stage has not yet been identified.

<==Cercaria Michaelis 1830FT93
    |--C. abbrevistyla Cable 1939D56
    |--C. anchoroides Ward 1916D56
    |--C. appendiculata Pelseneer 1906D56
    |--C. biflagellata Faust 1926D56
    |--C. bombayensis Soparkar 1921D56
    |--C. brachyura Lespés 1857 [=C. pachycerca Diesing 1858]D56
    |--C. brookoveri Faust 1918D56
    |--C. buccini Lebour 1912D56
    |--C. bucephalusH04
    |--C. californiensis Cort & Nicols 1920D56
    |--C. calliostomae Dollfus 1923D56
    |--C. capsularia Sonsino 1892D56
    |--C. chiltoni Dollfus 1925D56
    |--C. claparedei Dollfus 1925 (n. d.)D56
    |--C. columbellae Pagenstecher 1862D56
    |--C. cotylura Pagenstecher 1862D56
    |--C. diaphanaD56
    |--C. dioctorenalis Dobrovolny 1939D56
    |--C. echinocerca Filippi 1855D56
    |--C. elegans Müller in La Valette St George 1855D56
    |--C. elvaeD56
    |--C. emasculansD56
    |--C. fascicularis Villot 1875D56
    |--C. flabelliformisD56
    |--C. floridensisD56
    |--C. furcataD56
    |--C. fusca Pratt 1919D56
    |--C. glandosa Lebour 1911D56
    |--C. hamataD56
    |--C. helvetica Dubois 1929D56
    |--C. hodgesiana Smith 1932D56
    |--C. indicaD56
    |--C. invaginata Faust 1924D56
    |--C. laqueator Sinitsîn 1911D56
    |--C. limacis Moulinié 1856D56
    |--C. limnaeaeauriculariae (Filippi 1854)D56
    |--C. linearis Lespés 1857D56
    |--C. littorinaeD56
    |--C. loossi Stunkard 1929D56
    |--C. lophocerca Filippi 1857D56
    |--C. macrocercoides Faust 1926 [incl. C. macrura Faust 1921 (preoc.)]D56
    |--C. macrostoma Faust 1918D56
    |--C. major Nitzsch 1817D56
    |--C. melanophora Smith 1932D56
    |--C. microcristata Ercolani 1881D56
    |--C. micropharynxD56
    |--C. myocerca Villot 1878D56
    |--C. myocercoides Pelseneer 1906D56
    |--C. myzura Pagenstecher 1881D56
    |--C. neptunae Lebour 1911D56
    |--C. opacocorpaD56
    |--C. pekinensis Faust 1921D56
    |--C. pelseneeri Monticelli 1914D56
    |--C. physellaD56
    |--C. pisaniaeD56
    |--C. politaenitidulae Harper 1929D56
    |--C. projecta Willey 1930D56
    |--C. quintareti Dollfus 1925 (n. d.)D56
    |--C. ruvidaD56
    |--C. sagittarius Sinitsîn 1911D56
    |--C. searlesiae Miller 1925D56
    |--C. semicarinataeD56
    |--C. seminisG20
    |--C. setifera Müller in La Valette St George 1855D56
    |--C. sinitsini Rothschild 1938 [=C. sinitzini]D56
    |--C. stagnicolaD56
    |--C. stephanocauda Faust 1921D56
    |--C. stunkardiD56
    |--C. syringicauda Faust 1922D56
    |--C. trichocephala Cable 1939D56
    |--C. trichoderma Cable 1935D56
    |--C. tridenataD56
    |--C. trigonura Cort 1915D56
    |--C. trioctorenalis Dobrovolny 1939D56
    |--C. vaullegeardii Pelseneer 1906D56
    |--C. villoti Monticelli 1888D56
    |--C. wrighti Ward 1916D56
    `--C. yoshidae Yoshida 1917D56

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[D56] Dawes, B. 1956. The Trematoda with special reference to British and other European forms 2^nd ed. University Press: Cambridge.

[FT93] Fensome, R. A., F. J. R. Taylor, G. Norris, W. A. S. Sarjeant, D. I. Wharton & G. L. Williams. 1993. A classification of living and fossil dinoflagellates. Micropaleontology Special Publication 7: i–viii, 1–351.

[G20] Goldfuss, G. A. 1820. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte vol. 3. Handbuch der Zoologie pt 1. Johann Leonhard Schrag: Nürnberg.

[H04] Haeckel, E. 1899–1904. Kunstformen der Natur. Bibliographisches Institut: Leipzig und Wien.