Heterophyes nocens

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

Heterophyes nocens
Scientific classification
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

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]