Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Rhabditida > Suborder Spirurina > Infraorder Ascaridomorpha > Superfamily Seuratoidea > Family Cucullanidae > Subfamily Cucullaninae

Cucullanus Müller, 1777

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bulbodacnitis*	Maggenti, 1971	generic synonym
*Truttaedacnitis*	Petter, 1974	generic synonym
*Dacnitis*	Dujardin, 1845	synonym

Children

Cucullanus attenuatus (Molin, 1858) Barreto, 1918
Cucullanus bioccai Orecchia & Paggi, 1987
Cucullanus campanae Lebre & Petter, 1984
Cucullanus carbonelli Campos, Carbonell & Rodriquez-Babio, 1993
Cucullanus carettae Baylis, 1923
Cucullanus cirratus Müller, 1777
Cucullanus dodsworthi Barreto, 1922
Cucullanus dogieli Krotas, 1959
Cucullanus elongatus Smedley, 1933
Cucullanus gendrei Campana-Rouget, 1957
Cucullanus heterochrous Rudolphi, 1802
Cucullanus hians (Dujardin, 1845) Petter, 1974
Cucullanus longicollis (Stossich, 1899) Yorke & Maplestone, 1926
Cucullanus longispiculum De Oliveira Rodrigues, Carvalho Varela, Sodre' Rodrigues & Cristofaro, 1973
Cucullanus lophii Campana-Rouget & Chabaud, 1956
Cucullanus micropapillatus Törnquist, 1931
Cucullanus mugili Belous, 1965
Cucullanus murenophidis Campana-Rouget, 1957
Cucullanus orthagorisci (Rudolphi, 1819)
Cucullanus parvus Tornquist, 1931
Cucullanus praecinctus (Dujardin, 1845)
Cucullanus pulcherrimus Barreto, 1918
Cucullanus rotundatus (Molin, 1859) Barreto, 1918
Cucullanus sphaerocephalus (Rudolphi, 1809) Baylis, 1939
Cucullanus truttae Fabricius, 1794
Cucullanus tunisiensis Bouderbala, Quilichini & Bahri, 2022

Literature

original description	Müller O. F. (1788). Zoologia Danica seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia. Volumen primum: pp. [1-5], 1-46, pls. 121-160. Havniae [Copenhague], N. Möller.
basis of record	Anderson, R. C.; Chabaud, A. G.; Willmott, S. (1974). CIH Keys to the nematode parasites of vertebrates. i-x.
redescription	Moravec, F. (2013). Parasitic nematodes of freshwater fishes of Europe. Academia, Prague. 601 pp.
identification resource	Moravec, F.; Justine, J.-L. (2018). Three new species of Cucullanus (Nematoda: Cucullanidae) from marine fishes off New Caledonia, with a key to species of Cucullanus from Anguilliformes. Parasite. 25: 51.

Genbank

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Cucullanus Müller, 1777. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22861

Dr. David Gibson. Cucullanus Müller, 1777. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f7ec3ee8-f4ec-4a94-b7da-53b8d7a39e38