Tetracerasta

Tetracerasta is a genus of trematodes in the family Aephnidiogenidae. It consists of one species, Tetracerasta blepta Watson, 1984.[1]

Adult Tetracerasta blepta
Trematode adult of Tetracerasta blepta (scale line is 500 µm). Holotype specimen collected from the gut of longfin freshwater eel Anguilla reinhardtii caught in freshwater creek in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia circa 1983.
Tetracerasta blepta anterior
Tetracerasta blepta adult anterior with oral lobes and suckers
Tetracerasta blepta adult oral lobes
Tetracerasta blepta adult anterior with oral lobes dorsal view

Tetracerasta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Trematoda
Order:
Plagiorchiida
Family:
Aephnidiogenidae
Genus:
Tetracerasta

Watson, 1984[1]

References
  1. Watson, R. A. (1984). The life cycle and morphology of Tetracerasta blepta, gen. et sp. nov., and Stegodexamene callista, sp. nov. (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae) from the long-finned eel, Anguilla reinhardtii Steindachner. Australian Journal of Zoology, 32(1), 177–204.


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