''Dicyema'' is a genus of

worm Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wor ...

s belonging to the family

Dicyemidae The Dicyemidae is a family of tiny parasites that live in the renal appendages of cephalopods. It contains the following genera and species: * ''Dicyema'' von Kolliker, 1849 * ''Dicyemennea'' Whitman, 1883 * '' Dicyemodeca'' ** '' Dicyemodeca an ...

. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''

Octopus vulgaris The common octopus (''Octopus vulgaris'') is a mollusc belonging to the class Cephalopoda. ''Octopus vulgaris'' is one of the most studied of all octopus species, and also one of the most intelligent. It ranges from the eastern Atlantic, extends ...

'' * '' Dicyema aegira'' McConnaughey & Kritzler, 1952 * '' Dicyema akashiense'' Furuya, 2005 * '' Dicyema apalachiensis'' Short, 1962 * '' Dicyema apollyoni'' Nouvel, 1947 * '' Dicyema australis'' Penchaszadeh, 1969 * '' Dicyema awajiense'' Furuya, 2005 * '' Dicyema balanocephalum'' Furuya, 2006 * '' Dicyema banyulensis'' Furuya & Hochberg, 1999 * '' Dicyema benedeni'' Furuya & Hochberg, 1999 * ''

Dicyema benthoctopi ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Hochberg & Short, 1970 * '' Dicyema bilobum'' Couch & Short, 1964 * ''

Dicyema briarei ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

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Dicyema caudatum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Bogolepova-Dobrokhotova, 1960 * ''

Dicyema clavatum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya & Koshida, 1992 - parasitizes ''

Octopus minor ''Octopus minor'', otherwise known as the long arm octopus or the Korean common octopus, is a small-bodied octopus species distributed along the benthic coastal waters surrounding Eastern China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula. It lives at depths ...

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Dicyema colurum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes ''

Octopus fangsiao ''Amphioctopus fangsiao'', called webfoot octopus, is a species of octopus, a cephalopod belonging to the genus ''Amphioctopus''. It is found in the Pacific Ocean, including off the coasts of New Zealand as well as in the Yellow Sea and surround ...

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Dicyema dolichocephalum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes ''

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Dicyema erythrum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes ''

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Dicyema ganapatii ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Kalavati, Narasimhamurti & Suseela, 1984 * ''

Dicyema hadrum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes ''

Sepia esculenta ''Sepia esculenta'', the golden cuttlefish, is a cuttlefish Cuttlefish or cuttles are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique ...

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Dicyema helocephalum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya, 2005 * ''

Dicyema hypercephalum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Short, 1962 * ''

Dicyema irinoense ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya, 2005 * ''

Dicyema japonicum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * ''Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * ''Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * ''Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * '' ...

'' Furuya & Tsuneki, 1992 - parasitizes ''

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Dicyema knoxi ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Short, 1971 * ''

Dicyema koshidai ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya & Tsuneki, 2005 * '' Dicyema leiocephalum'' Furuya, 2006 * '' Dicyema lycidoeceum'' Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes ''

Sepia lycidas ''Sepia lycidas'', commonly known as the kisslip cuttlefish, is a species of cuttlefish within the genus Sepia. They are also classified under the family Sepiidae, which encompasses some of the most commonly known and recognized cuttlefish. Ph ...

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Dicyema macrocephalum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' (van Beneden, 1876) * '' Dicyema madrasensis'' Kalavati, Narasimhamurti & Suseela, 1984 * '' Dicyema maorum'' Short, 1971 * '' Dicyema megalocephalum'' Nouvel, 1934 * '' Dicyema microcephalum'' Whitman, 1883 * '' Dicyema misakiense'' Nouvel & Nakao, 1938 - parasitizes ''

'' * '' Dicyema monodi'' Nouvel, 1934 * ''

Dicyema moschatum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Whitman, 1883 * '' Dicyema nouveli'' Kalavati, Narasimhamurti & Suseela, 1984 * '' Dicyema octopusi'' Kalavati, Narasimhamurti & Suseela, 1984 * '' Dicyema oligomerum'' Bogolepova-Dobrokhotova, 1960 * '' Dicyema orientale'' Nouvel & Nakao, 1938 - parasitizes ''

Sepioteuthis lessoniana ''Sepioteuthis lessoniana'', commonly known as the bigfin reef squid, glitter squid or oval squid, is a species of loliginid squid. It is one of the three currently recognized species belonging to the genus ''Sepioteuthis''. Studies in 1993, ...

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Dicyema oxycephalum ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Furuya, 2009 * '' Dicyema paradoxum'' von Kölliker, 1849 * '' Dicyema platycephalum'' Penchaszadeh, 1968 * '' Dicyema rhadinum'' Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes ''

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Dicyema robsonellae ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * '' Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * '' Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * ...

'' Short, 1971 * '' Dicyema rondeletiolae'' Nouvel, 1944 * '' Dicyema schulzianum'' (van Beneden, 1876) * '' Dicyema sepiellae'' Furuya, 2008 * ''

Dicyema shimantoense ''Dicyema shimantoense'' is a parasitic worm of the phylum Dicyemida. It is a vermiform mesozoan parasite that infects the renal appendages of the cephalopod ''Octopus sasakii''. The name is derived from the Shimanto River, which is the longest r ...

'' Furuya, 2008 - parasitizes ''

Octopus sasakii ''Octopus sasakii'' is a species of octopus found only in salt water. This species is a taxon inquirendum. Physical description It is able to change its color. It moves forward by vigorously squeezing water in its cloak and pumping it throu ...

'' * '' Dicyema shorti'' Furuya, Damian & Hochberg, 2002 * '' Dicyema sphaerocephalum'' Furuya, 2005 * '' Dicyema sphyrocephalum'' Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes ''

'' * '' Dicyema sullivani'' McConnaughey, 1949 * ''

Dicyema tosaense ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * ''Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * ''Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * ''Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * '' ...

'' Furuya, 2005 * '' Dicyema typoides'' Short, 1964 * ''

Dicyema typus ''Dicyema'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Dicyemidae. Species: * ''Dicyema acciaccatum'' McConnaughey, 1949 * ''Dicyema acheroni'' McConnaughey, 1949 * ''Dicyema acuticephalum'' Nouvel, 1947 - parasitizes ''Octopus vulgaris'' * '' ...

'' van Beneden, 1876 * '' Dicyema whitmani'' Furuya & Hochberg, 1999

References

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