Arhythmacanthidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Echinorhynchida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Platyzoa Phylum: Acanthocephala Classis: Palaeacanthocephala Ordo: Echinorhynchida

Familia: Arhythmacanthidae
Subfamiliae: Arhythmacanthinae – Neoacanthocephaloidinae – Paracanthocephaloidinae

Overview of genera (5): Acanthocephaloides – Breizacanthus – Euzetacanthus – Heterosentis –Paracanthocephaloides
[source: Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist]

Name

Arhythmacanthidae Yamaguti, 1935

References

• Bray, R.A., Spencer Jones, M.E. & Lewis, J.W. 1988. Acanthocephaloides cyrusi n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Arhythmacanthidae) from southeast African teleost fishes. Systematic Parasitology 12: 109–116.
• Buron, I. de, Renaud, F., Euzet, L. 1986. Speciation and specificity of acanthocephalans. Genetic and morphological studies of Acanthocephaloides geneticus sp. nov. parasitizing Arnoglossus laterna (Bothidae) from the Mediterranean littoral (Sete – France). Parasitology 92: 165–171.
• Pichelin, S. & Cribb, T.H. 1999. A review of the Arhythmacanthidae (Acanthocephala), with a description of Heterosentis hirsutus n. sp. from Cnidoglanis macrocephala (Plotosidae) in Australia. Parasite 6: 293–302.