Cercaria is the name of a genus of trematodes in the subclass Digenea. It is used as a placeholder genus when the species description is based on the cercarial life stage and the adult forms are not known.
List Species:
Cercaria armata Cercaria brevicaeca Cercaria brookoveri Cercaria burti Cercaria caryi Cercaria chrysenterica Cercaria cloacicola Cercaria columbiensis Cercaria dermolestes Cercaria diastropha Cercaria dipterocerca Cercaria douglasi Cercaria douthitti Cercaria elegans Cercaria elongata Cercaria elvae Cercaria emarginatae Cercaria gedoelsti Cercaria gyrauli Cercaria hamata Cercaria hemilophura Cercaria hezuiensis Cercaria himasthloides Cercaria hongkongensis Cercaria inhabilis Cercaria isocotylea Cercaria laevicardi Cercaria leptacantha Cercaria linearis Cercaria littorinae Cercaria longicauda Cercaria magnicaudata Cercaria megalura Cercaria mesostephanus Cercaria milfordensis Cercaria minus Cercaria mortoni Cercaria multicellulata Cercaria myae Cercaria oregonensis Cercaria owreae Cercaria parvicaudata Cercaria pernaviridis Cercaria pleurolophocerca Cercaria polyadena Cercaria reflexae Cercaria rubra Cercaria shanghaiensis Cercaria spelotremoides Cercaria stagnicolae Cercaria sturniae Cercaria tenax Cercaria tenuis Cercaria trigonura Cercaria ubiquitoides Cercaria viridis Cercaria wardi
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