Cucullanus epinepheli is a species of parasitic nematodes.[1] It is an endoparasite of the brown spotted reef cod Epinephelus chlorostigma. The species has been described in 2018 by František Moravec & Jean-Lou Justine from material collected off New Caledonia in the South Pacific Ocean.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Cucullanidae |
| Genus: | Cucullanus |
| Species: | C. epinepheli
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| Binomial name | |
| Cucullanus epinepheli Moravec & Justine, 2017
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Cucullanus epinepheli was characterized from other members of the genus Cucullanus mainly in possessing a unique structure of the anterior, elevated cloacal lip with a large posterior outgrowth covering the cloacal aperture and in the presence of cervical alae and two small preanal papillae on the median dome-shaped precloacal elevation.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Moravec, Frantisek; Justine, Jean-Lou (2017). "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". Folia Parasitologica. 64: 011. doi:10.14411/fp.2017.011. ISSN 0015-5683. PMID 28402282.
