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

Tetracerasta
Tetracerasta blepta adult anterior with oral lobes and suckers
Tetracerasta blepta adult anterior with oral lobes dorsal view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Aephnidiogenidae
Genus: Tetracerasta
Watson, 1984[1]
Species:
T. blepta
Binomial name
Tetracerasta blepta
Watson, 1984
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.

References edit

  1. ^ a b 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.