WoRMS taxon details
Acanthocephala
- Class Eoacanthocephala
- Class Palaeacanthocephala
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Gibson, D.; Wayland, M. (2025). World List of marine Acanthocephala. Acanthocephala. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=18814 on 2025-04-19
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Reier, S.; Sattmann, H.; Schwaha, T.; Fuehrer, H.-P.; Haring, E. (2020). Unravelling the hidden biodiversity – the establishment of DNA barcodes of fish-parasitizing Acanthocephala Koehlreuther, 1771 in view of taxonomic misidentifications, intraspecific variability and possible cryptic species. <em>Parasitology.</em> 1-10., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182020001316 [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Iannacone, J., Alvarino, L. (2009). Quantitative aspects on the parasite fauna of Anisotremus scapularis (Tschudi) (Osteichthyes, Haemulidae) captured during artisanal fishery at Chorrillos, Lima, Peru. <em>Revista Ibero-Latinoamericana de Parasitologia.</em> 1: 56–64. [details]
biology source Perrot-Minnot, M.-J.; Cozzarolo, C.-S.; Amin, O.; Barčák, D.; Bauer, A.; Filipović Marijić, V.; García-Varela, M.; Servando Hernández-Orts, J.; Yen Le, T.; Nachev, M.; Orosová, M.; Rigaud, T.; Šariri, S.; Wattier, R.; Reyda, F.; Sures, B. (2023). Hooking the scientific community on thorny-headed worms: interesting and exciting facts, knowledge gaps and perspectives for research directions on Acanthocephala. <em>Parasite.</em> 30: 23., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2023026 [details]
biology source Perrot-Minnot, M.-J.; Cozzarolo, C.-S.; Amin, O.; Barčák, D.; Bauer, A.; Filipović Marijić, V.; García-Varela, M.; Servando Hernández-Orts, J.; Yen Le, T.; Nachev, M.; Orosová, M.; Rigaud, T.; Šariri, S.; Wattier, R.; Reyda, F.; Sures, B. (2023). Hooking the scientific community on thorny-headed worms: interesting and exciting facts, knowledge gaps and perspectives for research directions on Acanthocephala. <em>Parasite.</em> 30: 23., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2023026 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Biology Thorny-headed worms, or acanthocephalans, are parasites that live in the gut of vertebrates and - earlier in their life cycle - within invertebrates. The thorny protrusible proboscis is globular or cylindrical; the body also may bear spiny thorns. These parasitic worms anchor themselves with their proboscis and body spines to the gut wall of a host. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | haakwormen | [details] |
| English | thorny-headed wormsspiny-headed wormsacanthocephalans | [details] |
| German | KratzwürmerKratzer | [details] |
| Japanese | 鉤頭動物門 | [details] |
| Swedish | hakmaskar | [details] |
