Plagiorhynchidae

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Plagiorhynchidae is a family of parasitic Acanthocephalan worms.

Plagiorhynchidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Acanthocephala
Class: Palaeacanthocephala
Order: Polymorphida
Family: Plagiorhynchidae
Golvan, 1960

Species edit

Genera in Plagiorhynchidae are divided into three subfamilies: Plagiorhynchinae, Porrorchinae, and Sphaerechinorhynchinae.[1][a]

Plagiorhynchinae Meyer, 1931 edit

Paralueheia Saxena & Gupta, 2008

  • Paralueheia guptai Saxena & Gupta, 2008

Species in Plagiorhynchus are divided into two subgenera: Plagiorhynchus and Prosthorhynchus.[2]

Plagiorhynchus Lühe, 1911 edit

P. aznari was found infesting a long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) from northern Mexico.[3]

Prosthorhynchus Kostylew, 1915 edit

P. cylindraceus was found infesting the Austral thrush (Turdus falcklandii) in central Chile.[4] Janice Moore[5] discovered P. cylindraceus to be a parasite that infects an intermediate host, the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare, which alters its behavior and becomes more susceptible to P. cylindraceus' primary host, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

Porrorchinae Golvan, 1956 edit

L. inscripta was found infesting the Austral thrush (Turdus falcklandii) in central Chile.[4] It has also been found in the Puerto Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus.[6]

Sphaerechinorhynchinae Golvan, 1956 edit

S. macropisthospinus has been found in the intestine of the tiger (Panthera tigris) and a water monitor (Varanus salvator) in Vietnam.[7]

Hosts edit

Plagiorhynchidae species parasitize a variety of hosts.

Notes edit

  1. ^ A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the present genus.

References edit

  1. ^ "ITIS - Report: Plagiorhynchidae".
  2. ^ "ITIS - Report: Plagiorhynchus".
  3. ^ a b García-Varela, M.; Park, J.-K.; Hernández-Orts, J.S.; Pinacho-Pinacho, C.D. (2020). "Morphological and molecular data on a new species of Plagiorhynchus Lühe, 1911 (Acanthocephala: Plagiorhynchidae) from the long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) from northern Mexico". Journal of Helminthology. 94: e61. doi:10.1017/S0022149X19000543. PMID 31328706. S2CID 198135203.
  4. ^ a b Llanos-Soto, Sebastián; Córdoba, Mabel; Moreno, Lucila; Kinsella, John Mike; Mironov, Sergey; Cicchino, Armando; Barrientos, Carlos; Martín-Ordenes, Julio San; González-Acuña, Daniel (July 2019). "External and intestinal parasites of the Austral thrush Turdus falcklandii (Aves, Turdidae) in central Chile". Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária. 28 (3): 432–442. doi:10.1590/s1984-29612019067. hdl:11336/120173. PMID 31531671.
  5. ^ Moore, Janice (October 1983). "Responses of an Avian Predator and Its Isopod Prey to an Acanthocephalan Parasite". Ecology. 64 (5): 1000–1015. doi:10.2307/1937807. JSTOR 1937807.
  6. ^ Hailey, Adrian (21 November 2019). "Anolis cristatellus (Puerto Rican crested anole)". Invasive Species Compendium. CAB International. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  7. ^ Amin, Omar M.; Ha, Ngyuen Van; Heckmann, Richard A. (2008). "New and Already Known Acanthocephalans Mostly from Mammals in Vietnam, with Descriptions of Two New Genera and Species in Archiacanthocephala". Journal of Parasitology. 94 (1): 194–201. doi:10.1645/GE-1394.1. PMID 18372641. S2CID 7767259.