Macracanthorhynchus
Sign in to saveMacracanthorhynchus, also known as the giant thorny-headed worm of swine, is a member of the Oligacanthorhynchidae which contains four species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAcanthocephala
- ClassArchiacanthocephala
- OrderOligacanthorhynchida
- FamilyOligacanthorhynchidae
Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceusMacracanthorhynchus, jedan od tri roda parazitskih crva iz porodice Oligacanthorhynchidae, red Oligacanthorhynchida , razred Archiacanthocephala. Obuhvaća tri vrste, to su. Macracanthorhynchus catulinus Kostylev, 1927. Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus (Pallas, 1781.), Macracanthorhynchus ingens (Linstow, 1879.)
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Oligacanthorhynchidae
- Collections
- USNM, MSB, AUM, NHMUK, DMNS
- Recorded in
- United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
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- Species
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Macracanthorhynchus, also known as the giant thorny-headed worm of swine, is a member of the Oligacanthorhynchidae which contains four species.
==Taxonomy== Phylogenetic analysis has been conducted on at least one of the four species in the genus, M. ingens, and confirms that this species belongs to the family Oligacanthorhynchidae. The type species is M. hirudinaceus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macracanthorhynchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.