| Bathycotylidae () |
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host; marine |
| Western Central Atlantic and Northwest Pacific: Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico and Japan. |
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Moderate-sized; elongate fluke has the ventral sucker located on a projection from the body. Oral sucker: smaller than the ventral sucker and moderately separated from it (more than 2, less than 3 ventral sucker diameters). There is a hood-like lobe that hangs over the oral sucker and the ventral sucker is enclosed by a fold of the body wall. No tail is present. |
| Length: 0.13 to 0.24 cm. |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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