Dicyemidae

---

title: "Dicyemidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["parasites-of-molluscs", "parasitic-protostomes", "spiralian-families", "dicyemida"] description: "Family of rhombozoa animals" topic_path: "general/parasites-of-molluscs" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicyemidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of rhombozoa animals ::

| image = Dicyema macrocephalum.png | image_caption = Dicyema macrocephalum | taxon = Dicyemidae | authority = van Beneden, 1882 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision= See text

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 anthinocephalum Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes Octopus dofleini
  • Dicyemodeca deca (McConnaughey, 1957)
  • Dicyemodeca dogieli Bogolepova, 1957
• Dodecadicyema Kalavati & Narasimhamurti, 1979
  • Dodecadicyema loligoi Kalavati & Narasimhamurti, 1980
• Pleodicyema
  • Pleodicyema delamarei Nouvel, 1961
• Pseudicyema Nouvel, 1933
  • Pseudicyema cappacephalum Furuya, 2009
  • Pseudicyema nakaoi Furuya, 1999 - parasitizes Sepia lycidas and Sepia esculenta
  • Pseudicyema truncatum (Whitman, 1883)

References

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Dicyemidae van Beneden, 1882".
2. Furuya, Hidetaka. (2003). "Biology of Dicyemid Mesozoans". Zoological Science.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::