Heterophyes nocens

Heterophyes nocens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Heterophyidae
Genus:	Heterophyes
Species:	H. nocens
Binomial name
Heterophyes nocens Onji & Nishio, 1916
Synonyms[1]
Heterophyes katsuradai Ozaki & Asada, 1926

Heterophyes nocens is a species of trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Heterophyidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• southwestern Korea in coastal regions[1]
• Kōchi Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Chūgoku region, Hiroshima Prefecture, and Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan[1]
• China.[2]

Life cycle

The first intermediate hosts of Heterophyes nocens include brackish water snail Cerithideopsilla cingulata.[2]

The second intermediate host include freshwater fish: Mugil cephalus, and Acanthogobius flavimanus.[2]

Natural definitive hosts are fish-eating mammals: cats, dogs and rats.[3] It can infect humans when eating raw fish.[1]

References

1. Chai J.-Y., Shin E.-H., Lee S.-H. & Rim H.-J. (2009). "Foodborne Intestinal Flukes in Southeast Asia". The Korean Journal of Parasitology 47(Suppl): S69-S102. doi:10.3347/kjp.2009.47.S.S69.
2. Chai J. Y., Darwin Murrell K. & Lymbery A. J. (2005). "Fish-borne parasitic zoonoses: Status and issues". International Journal for Parasitology 35(11-12): 1233-1254. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.07.013.
3. Jong-Yil Chai, Bong-Kwang Jung: Fishborne zoonotic heterophyid infections: An update. In: Food and Waterborne Parasitology. Volume 8–9, 2017, pp. 33–63.

External links

• "Heterophyes nocens". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).