Fig. 1.
Contracaecum jorgei larvae found in the celomic cavity of Centropomus armatus.
Fig. 2.
Morphological identification of the third stage larvae of Contracaecum genus. A. cuticular tooth (ct), esophagus (e), intestinal cecum (ic). B. Conical tail with pointed tip.
Fig. 3.
Phylogenetic relationship among different isolates of Contracaecum, studied and published, using maximum likelihood analysis for the Cox-II fragment, demonstrating the characterization of the species Contracaecum jorgei with the ones obtained in this study (CA01 and CA02).
Fig. 4.
Maximum likelihood tree of the two sequences of the rrnS fragment in the current study with other Contracaecum species downloaded from GenBank.