Trypanorhyncha

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Trypanorhyncha
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Nybelinia basimegacantha [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Subclass: Eucestoda
Order: Trypanorhyncha
Suborders and families

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]

References

  1. 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. PMC   4234045 . PMID   25402635. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. Palm HW, Waeschenbach A, Olson PD, Littlewood DT (August 2009). "Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda)" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (2): 351–67. Bibcode:2009MolPE..52..351P. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.019. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   19489123.