Biology:Trypanorhyncha
| Trypanorhyncha | |
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| Nybelinia basimegacantha[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Cestoda |
| Subclass: | Eucestoda |
| Order: | Trypanorhyncha |
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Trypanorhyncha is an order of cestodes, a type of flatworm.
Some species infect gamefish, such as sciaenids, during the parasitic worm's plerocercoid stage, and are commonly called spaghetti worm because of their appearance, approximating cooked spaghetti. Such species include Poecilancistrium caryophyllum and Pseudogrillotia pleistacantha.
Their scolex, or head region, has 2 to 4 bothria, or sucking grooves that cling onto the host. They have four retractable tentacles.[2]
Gallery
Tentacle of Nybelinia basimegacantha, parasitic in the fish Neoniphon sammara
Plerocerci of Callitetrarhynchus gracilis in the body cavity of the fish Scomberomorus commerson
melanized plerocerci in the bodycavity of a grouper
Molicola horridus in the liver of the fish Diodon hystrix
References
- ↑ Beveridge, Ian; Bray, Rodney A.; Cribb, Thomas H.; Justine, Jean-Lou (2014). "Diversity of trypanorhynch metacestodes in teleost fishes from coral reefs off eastern Australia and New Caledonia". Parasite 21: 60. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014060. ISSN 1776-1042. PMID 25402635.
- ↑ "Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda)" (in en). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (2): 351–67. August 2009. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.019. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 19489123. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790309000347.
Wikidata ☰ Q3388246 entry
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