Trypanorhyncha

Trypanorhyncha

Nybelinia basimegacantha^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Subclass:	Eucestoda
Order:	Trypanorhyncha
Suborders and families
Acystidea Hepatoxylidae Paranybeliniidae Sphyriocephalidae Tentaculariidae Cystidea Dasyrhynchidae Eutetrarhynchidae Gilquiniidae Gymnorhynchidae Hornelliellidae Lacistorhynchidae Mustelicolidae Otobothriidae Pseudogrillotiidae Pterobothriidae Rhinoptericolidae Tetrarhynchobothriidae

Trypanorhyncha is an order of cestode, 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.

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. PMC 4234045. PMID 25402635.

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