Plagiorhynchidae is a family of parasitic Acanthocephalan worms.

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

Species

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

Plagiorhynchinae Meyer, 1931

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Paralueheia

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ParalueheiaSaxena & Gupta, 2008 contains only one species, Paralueheia guptai Saxena & Gupta, 2008

Plagiorhynchus

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Species in Plagiorhynchus Lühe, 1911 are divided into two subgenera: Plagiorhynchus and Prosthorhynchus.[2]

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

Prosthorhynchus

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Prosthorhynchus Kostylew, 1915 contains many species:

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

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Lueheia

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Lueheia Travassos, 1919 contains several species:

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]

Oligoterorhynchus

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Oligoterorhynchus Monticelli, 1914 contains one species: Oligoterorhynchus campylurus (Nitzsch, 1857)

Owilfordia

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Owilfordia Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967 contains three species.

Porrorchis

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Porrorchis Fukui, 1929 contains many species.

Pseudogordiorhynchus

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Golvan, 1957

Pseudolueheia

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Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967

Sphaerechinorhynchinae Golvan, 1956

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Sphaerechinorhynchus

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Johnston, 1929

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

Hosts

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Plagiorhynchidae species parasitize a variety of hosts.

Notes

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

References

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  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.