Polymorphidae

Polymorphidae
Corynosoma wegeneri photomicrograph
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Acanthocephala
Class: Palaeacanthocephala
Order: Polymorphida
Family: Polymorphidae
Meyer, 1931
Genera
  • Andracantha Schmidt, 1975
  • Arhythmorhynchus Lühe, 1911
  • Bolbosoma Porta, 1908
  • Corynosoma Lühe, 1904
  • Filicollis Lühe, 1911
  • Hexaglandula Petrochenko, 1950
  • Neoandracantha Amin & Heckmann, 2017
  • Polymorphus Lühe, 1911
  • Profilicollis Meyer, 1931
  • Pseudocorynosoma Aznar, Pérez-Ponce de León & Raga, 2006
  • Southwellina Witenberg, 1932

The thorny-headed worm family Polymorphidae contains endoparasites which as adults feed mainly in fish and aquatic birds. When this taxon was erected by Meyer in 1931, a subfamily Polymorphinae was established in it. As the Polymorphidae as presently understood would then be monotypic, with no basal genera outside the Polymorphinae, the proposed subfamily is redundant for the time being and therefore most modern treatments simply omit it.

Polymorphus minutus is an economically significant parasite in goose and duck farming.

Genera

Andracantha

  • Andracantha baylisi (Zdzitowiecki, 1986) Zdzitowiecki, 1989
  • Andracantha clavata (Goss, 1940)
  • Andracantha gravida (Alegret, 1941) Schmidt, 1975
  • Andracantha mergi Lundström, 1942
  • Andracantha phalacrocoracis (Yamaguti, 1939)
  • Andracantha tandemtesticulata Monteiro, Amato & Amato, 2006
  • Andracantha tunitae (Weiss, 1914)

Arhythmorhynchus

  • Arhythmorhynchus brevis Van Cleave, 1916
  • Arhythmorhynchus comptus Van Cleave & Rausch, 1950
  • Arhythmorhynchus frassoni (Molin, 1858)
  • Arhythmorhynchus invaginablis (von Linstow, 1890)
  • Arhythmorhynchus longicollis (Villot, 1875)
  • Arhythmorhynchus petrochenkoi (Schmidt, 1969)
  • Arhythmorhynchus pumiliorostris Van Cleave, 1916
  • Arhythmorhynchus roseum (Molin, 1858)
  • Arhythmorhynchus teres Van Cleave, 1920
  • Arhythmorhynchus trichocephalus (Leuckart, 1876)
  • Arhythmorhynchus uncinatus (Kaiser, 1893) Lühe, 1912
  • Arhythmorhynchus villoti Golvan, 1994

Bolbosoma

  • Bolbosoma aurantiacum (Risso, 1826)
  • Bolbosoma balaenae (Gmelin, 1790)
  • Bolbosoma bobrovoi Krotov & Delyamure, 1952
  • Bolbosoma brevicolle (Malm, 1867)
  • Bolbosoma capitatum (von Linstow, 1880)
  • Bolbosoma hamiltoni Baylis, 1929
  • Bolbosoma heteracanthis (Heitz, 1917)
  • Bolbosoma nipponicum Yamaguti, 1939
  • Bolbosoma pellucidum (Leuckart, 1828)
  • Bolbosoma physeteris Gubanov, 1952
  • Bolbosoma scomberomori Wang, 1981
  • Bolbosoma tuberculata Skrjabin, 1970
  • Bolbosoma turbinella (Diesing, 1851)
  • Bolbosoma vasculosum (Rudolphi, 1819)

Corynosoma

  • Corynosoma alaskense Golvan, 1958
  • Corynosoma australe Johnston, 1937
  • Corynosoma beaglense Laskowski, Jeżewski & Zdzitowiecki, 2008
  • Corynosoma bullosum (Linstow, 1892)
  • Corynosoma cameroni Van Cleave, 1953
  • Corynosoma capsicum Golvan and Mokhayer, 1973
  • Corynosoma cetaceum Johnston & Best, 1942
  • Corynosoma clavatum Goss, 1940
  • Corynosoma curilense Gubanov, 1942
  • Corynosoma enhydri Morozov, 1940
  • Corynosoma eperlani (von Linstow, 1884)
  • Corynosoma erignathi Stryukov, 2000
  • Corynosoma evae Zdzitowiecki, 1984
  • Corynosoma falcatum Van Cleave, 1953
  • Corynosoma gibsoni Zdzitowiecki, 1986
  • Corynosoma hamanni (Linstow, 1892)
  • Corynosoma hannae Zdzitowiecki, 1984
  • Corynosoma longilemniscatus Machado-Filho, 1961
  • Corynosoma magdaleni Montreuil, 1958
  • Corynosoma mandarinca Oshmarin, 1963
  • Corynosoma obtuscens Lincicome, 1943
  • Corynosoma pseudohamanni Zdzitowiecki, 1984
  • Corynosoma rauschi Golvan, 1958
  • Corynosoma reductum (Linstow, 1905)
  • Corynosoma semerme (Forssell, 1904)
  • Corynosoma septentrionale Treshchev, 1966
  • Corynosoma seropedicus Machado-Filho, 1970
  • Corynosoma shackletoni Zdzitowiecki, 1978
  • Corynosoma simile Neiland, 1962
  • Corynosoma stanleyi Smales, 1986
  • Corynosoma strumosum (Rudolphi, 1802) Lühe, 1904
  • Corynosoma sudsuche Belopolskaia, 1958
  • Corynosoma validum Van Cleave, 1953
  • Corynosoma ventronudum Skrjabin, 1959
  • Corynosoma villosum Van Cleave, 1953
  • Corynosoma wegeneri Heinze, 1934

Filicollis

Hexaglandula

  • Hexaglandula corynosoma (Travassos, 1915)
  • Hexaglandula mutabilis (Rudolphi, 1819)

Neoandracantha

Neoandracantha peruensis

Polymorphus

  • Polymorphus acutis Van Cleave and Starrett, 1940
  • Polymorphus ariusis (Bilqees, 1974) Amin, 1992
  • Polymorphus botulus (Van Cleave, 1916)
  • Polymorphus cetaceum (Johnston and Best, 1942)
  • Polymorphus contortus (Bremser, 1821)
  • Polymorphus karachiensis (Bilqees, 1974) Amin, 1992
  • Polymorphus kenti Van Cleave, 1947
  • Polymorphus magnus Skrjabin, 1913
  • Polymorphus major Lundström, 1942
  • Polymorphus minutus (Zeder, 1800)
  • Polymorphus obtusus Van Cleave, 1918
  • Polymorphus phippsi Kostylev, 1922
  • Polymorphus sphaerocephalus (Bremser in Rudolphi, 1819) Van Cleave, 1947
  • Polymorphus texensis Webster, 1948
  • Polymorphus trochus Van Cleave, 1945

Profilicollis

  • Profilicollis altmani (Perry, 1942) Van Cleave, 1947
  • Profilicollis antarcticus (Zdzitowiecki, 1985)
  • Profilicollis botulus (Van Cleave, 1916)
  • Profilicollis chasmagnathi (Holcman-Spector, Mañé-Garzón & Dei-Cas, 1977) Golvan, 1994
  • Profilicollis formosus (Schmidt & Kuntz, 1967)
  • Profilicollis novaezelandensis Brockerhoff & Smales, 2002

Pseudocorynosoma

  • Pseudocorynosoma anatarium (Van Cleave, 1945) Aznar, Pérez-Ponce de León & Raga, 2006
  • Pseudocorynosoma constrictum (Van Cleave, 1918) Aznar, Pérez-Ponce de León & Raga, 2006
  • Pseudocorynosoma enrietti (Molfi & Fernandes, 1953) Aznar, Pérez-Ponce de León & Raga, 2006
  • Pseudocorynosoma iheringi (Machado-Filho, 1961) Aznar, Pérez-Ponce de León & Raga, 2006
  • Pseudocorynosoma peposacae (Porta, 1914) Aznar, Pérez-Ponce de León & Raga, 2006
  • Pseudocorynosoma tepehuanesi García-Varela, Henández-Orts & Pinacho-Pinacho, 2017

Southwellina

  • Southwellina dimorpha Schmidt, 1973
  • Southwellina hispida (Van Cleave, 1925)
  • Southwellina sacra Bhattacharya, Pande & Srivastaca, 2002

References

  1. ↑ Amin, Omar M.; Heckmann, Richard A. (2017). "Neoandracantha peruensis n. gen. n. sp. (Acanthocephala, Polymorphidae) described from cystacanths infecting the ghost crab Ocypode gaudichaudii on the Peruvian coast". Parasite. 24: 40. doi:10.1051/parasite/2017038. ISSN 1776-1042.
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