Heterophyes nocens

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

Distribution

This species occurs in:

southwestern Korea in coastal regions
Kōchi Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Chūgoku region, Hiroshima Prefecture, and Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan
China.

Life cycle

The first intermediate hosts of Heterophyes nocens include brackish water snail Cerithideopsilla cingulata.
The second intermediate host include freshwater fish: Mugil cephalus, and Acanthogobius flavimanus.
Natural definitive hosts are fish-eating mammals: cats, dogs and rats. It can infect humans when eating raw fish.