Cucullanus gymnothoracis

Cucullanus gymnothoracis is a species of parasitic nematodes.^[1] It is an endoparasite of the lipspot moray Gymnothorax chilospilus. The species has been described in 2018 by František Moravec & Jean-Lou Justine from material collected off New Caledonia in the South Pacific Ocean.^[1]

Cucullanus gymnothoracis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Family:	Cucullanidae
Genus:	Cucullanus
Species:	C. gymnothoracis
Binomial name
Cucullanus gymnothoracis Moravec & Justine, 2018

Cucullanus gymnothoracis, scanning electron microscopy

Cucullanus gymnothoracis was considered somewhat similar to Cucullanus austropacificus, but differs from this species in the absence of cervical alae and the posterior cloacal outgrowth, in the shape and size of the anterior cloacal outgrowth and shorter spicules 1.12 mm long.^[1]