Apororhynchida
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| Apororhynchus hemignathi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Acanthocephala |
| Class: | Archiacanthocephala Meyer, 1931 |
| Order: | Apororhynchida |
| Family: | Apororhynchidae Shipley, 1899 |
| Genus: | Apororhynchus Shipley, 1899 |
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Apororhynchida is an order containing one family, Apororhynchidae,[1] and one genus, Apororhynchus,[1] of microscopic parasitic worms that attach themselves to the intestinal wall of terrestrial vertebrates.
Species
- Apororhynchus aculeatus Meyer, 1931[2]
Has been found infecting Oriolis cristatus in Brazil.[3]
Has been found infecting the Canada warbler (Wilsonia canadensis) in Virginia and the Parula warbler (Compsothlysis americana) in Georgia.[3]
- Apororhynchus bivoluerus Das, 1950[5][6]
- Apororhynchus chauhani Sen, 1975[7]
- Apororhynchus hemignathi Shipley, 1899[8]
Has been found infecting the Honey creeper (Hemignathus procerus) in Hawaii.[3]
- Apororhynchus paulonucleatus Hoklova and Cimbaluk, 1971
- Apororhynchus silesiacus Okulewicz and Maruszewski, 1980
References
- Byrd, Elon E. and Denton, J. Fred: The Helminth Parasites of Birds. II. A New Species of Acanthocephala from North American Birds. The Journal of Parasitology Vol. 35, No. 4, The American Society of Parasitologists, 1949, p. 391-410. [1]
- Byrd, Elon E.: Observations on the anatomy of a male Acanthocephalan. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 24(3), 1949, p. 174.
- Crompton, David William Thomasson; Nickol, Brent B.: Biology of the Acanthocephala, Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 31. [2]
- Das, Eashwar N.: On a new species of Apororhynchus from the white scavenger vulture Neophron percnopterus (Linn.) from India. Records of the Indian Museum 48(3-4), 1950,[6] p. 43-50. [3]
- Dunagan, T. T. & Miller, D. M.: Acanthocephalan bibliography. Physiology Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. [4]
- Marval, Louis de: Sur les Acanthocéphales D'Oiseaux. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 12(3), 1904, p. 573-583. [5], [6], [7]
- Meyer, A.: Neue Acanthocephalen aus dem Berliner Museum. Begründung eines neuen Acanthocephalensystems auf Grund einer Untersuchung der Berliner Sammlung. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematick, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 62, 1931, p. 65-68.
- Sen, J. K.: On a new species of Apororhynchus Shipley, 1899 (Apororhynchoidea: Apororhynchidae) from India. Dr. B. S. Chauhan Commemorative Volume, Tiwara, K. K. and C. B. Srivastava Eds., Orissa, India, Zoological Society of India, 1975, p. 211-213. [8]
- Shipley, Arthur E.: Memoirs: On Arhynchus hemignathi, a new Genus of Acanthocephala. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, s2-39 (1896-1897), London, 1897, p. 207-218. [9], [10], [11], [12]
- Shipley, Arthur E.: Memoirs: Note: Arhynchus hemignathi. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, s2-42 (1899), London, 1899, p. 361. [13], [14], [15], [16]
- Thapar, Gobind Singh: On Acanthogyrus n.g. from the Intestine of the Indian Fish Labeo rohita, with a Note on the Classification of the Acanthocephala. Journal of Helminthology, 5, 1927, p. 109-120. [17]
- Van Cleave, Harley J.: Eorhynchus: A proposed new name for Neorhynchus Hamann preoccupied. Journal of Parasitology 1(1), 1914, p. 50-51. [18], [19]
