Quadrigyridae

Eoacanthocephala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Acanthocephala
Class:	Eoacanthocephala
Order:	Gyracanthocephala Van Cleve, 1936
Family:	Quadrigyridae Van Cleve, 1920
Genera
Subfamily Pallisentinae Acanthogyrus Devendrosentis Palliolisentis Pallisentis Raosentis Saccosentis Subfamily Quadrigyrinae Deltacanthus Quadrigyrus

Quadrigyridae is the only family within Gyracanthocephala, an order of parasitic worms of class Eoacanthocephala. This family contains two subfamilies, ten genera and about 92 species.

Genera

Acanthogyrus

Contains the following species:

• Acanthogyrus acanthogyrus Thapar, 1927
• Acanthogyrus acanthuri (Cable and Quick, 1954)
• Acanthogyrus anguillae (Wang, 1981)
• Acanthogyrus antspinis (Verma and Datta, 1929)
• Acanthogyrus arii (Bilgees, 1971)
• Acanthogyrus bacailai (Verma, 1973)
• Acanthogyrus cameroni (Gupta and Kajaji, 1969)
• Acanthogyrus dattai (Podder, 1938)
• Acanthogyrus giuris (Soota and Sen, 1956)
• Acanthogyrus golvani (Gupta and Jain, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus guptai Gupta and Verma, 1976
• Acanthogyrus holospinus (Sen, 1937)
• Acanthogyrus indica (Tripathi, 1959)
• Acanthogyrus intermedius (Achmerov, et al., 1941)
• Acanthogyrus maroccanus (Dollfus, 1951)
• Acanthogyrus multispinus Wang, 1966
• Acanthogyrus nigeriensis Dollfus and Golvan, 1956
• Acanthogyrus oligospinus (Anantaraman, 1969)
• Acanthogyrus papilo Troncy and Vassiliades, 1974
• Acanthogyrus partispinus Furtado, 1963
• Acanthogyrus periophthalmi (Wang, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus scomberomori (Wang, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus shashiensis (Tso, Chen, and Chien, 1974)
• Acanthogyrus similis (Wang, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus sircari (Podder, 1941)
• Acanthogyrus thapari (Parasad, et al., 1969)
• Acanthogyrus tilapiae (Baylis, 1948)
• Acanthogyrus tripathi Rai, 1967
• Acanthogyrus vittatusi (Verma, 1973)

Deltacanthus

Contains the following species:

• Deltacanthus scorzai (Diaz-ungria, et al., 1957)

Devendrosentis

Contains the following species:

• Devendrosentis garuai Sahay, Sinha, Gosh, 1971

Palliolisentis

Contains the following species:

• Palliolisentis ornatus Machado, 1960
• Palliolisentis polyonca Schmidt and Hugghins, 1973
• Palliolisentis quinqueungulis Machado, 1960

Pallisentis

Contains the following species:

• Pallisentis allahabadii Agarwal, 1958
• Pallisentis basiri Farooqi, 1958
• Pallisentis cavasii Gupta and Verma, 1980
• Pallisentis cholodkowskyi (Kostylev, 1928)
• Pallisentis cleatus (Van Cleave, 1928)
• Pallisentis colisai Sarkar, 1956
• Pallisentis fasciata Gupta and Verma, 1980
• Pallisentis gaboes (Maccallum, 1918)
• Pallisentis golvani Troncy and Vassiliades, 1973
• Pallisentis gomtii Gupta and Verma, 1980
• Pallisentis guntei Sahay, Nath, and Sinha, 1967
• Pallisentis magnum Saeed and Bilgees, 1971
• Pallisentis nagpurensis (Bhalerao, 1931)
• Pallisentis nandai Sarkar, 1953
• Pallisentis ophiocephali (Thapar, 1931)
• Pallisentis panadei Rai, 1967
• Pallisentis umbellatus Van Cleave, 1928
• Pallisentis ussuriensis (Kostylev, 1941)

Quadrigyrus

Contains the following species:

• Quadrigyrus brasiliensis Machado, 1941
• Quadrigyrus chinensis Mao, 1979
• Quadrigyrus nickoli Schmidt and Hugghins, 1973
• Quadrigyrus rhodei Wang, 1980
• Quadrigyrus torquatus Van Cleave, 1920

Raosentis

Contains the following species:

• Raosentis podderi Datta, 1947
• Raosentis thapari Rai, 1967

Saccosentis

Contains the following species:

• Saccosentis ophiocephali Jain and Gupta, 1979
• Saccosentis pesteri Tadros, 1966

References

• "Quadrigyridae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 Mar 2007.