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Family of thorny-headed worms

Transvenidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Acanthocephala
Class: Palaeacanthocephala
Order: Echinorhynchida
Family: Transvenidae
Pichelin & Cribb, 2001

Transvenidae is a family of parasitic spiny-headed (or thorny-headed) worms in the order Echinorhynchida. This family contains three species divided into two genera.

Taxonomy and description

Phylogenetic analysis has been conducted.

Species

There are three genera and six species in the family Transvenidae:

Paratrajectura

Paratrajectura Amin, Heckmann et Ali, 2018 contains one species:

  • Paratrajectura longcementglandatus Amin, Heckmann et Ali, 2018

Sclerocollum

Main article: Sclerocollum

Sclerocollum Schmidt and Paperna, 1978 contains three species:

  • Sclerocollum robustum (Edmonds, 1964)
  • Sclerocollum rubrimaris Schmidt and Paperna, 1978
  • Sclerocollum saudii Al-Jahdali, 2010

Trajectura

Main article: Trajectura

Trajectura Pichelin & Cribb, 2001 contains two species: Trajectura is distinguished by the possession of only two cement glands and an anterior conical projection (function unknown) on the females.

  • Trajectura ikedai (Machida, 1992)

Diplosentis ikedai was found to share similar anatomical features (only two cement glands and an anterior conical projection on females) was renamed T. ikedai.

  • Trajectura perinsolens Pichelin and Cribb, 2001

T. perinsolens Was found parasitising the New Guinea wrasse Anampses neoguinaicus from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

Transvena

Main article: Transvena

Transvena Pichelin & Cribb, 2001 contains one species:

  • Transvena annulospinosa Pichelin and Cribb, 2001

Hosts

  • Hosts for Transvenidae species
  • Anampses neoguinaicus swimming The New Guinea wrasse (Anampses neoguinaicus) is one of the hosts of T. perinsolens

Notes

  1. A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the present genus.
  2. Pararhadinorhynchus Johnston & Edmonds, 1947 including Pararhadinorhynchus magnus. Pararhadinorhynchus is sometimes classified within the Diplosentidae.

References

  1. ^ Pichelin, S.; Cribb, T. (2001). "The status of the Diplosentidae (Acanthocephala: Palaeacanthocephala) and a new family of acanthocephalans from Australian wrasses (Pisces: Labridae)". Folia Parasitologica. 48 (4): 289–303. doi:10.14411/fp.2001.047. PMID 11817452.
  2. Sharifdini, M.; Amin, O. M.; Heckmann, R. A. (2020). "The molecular profile of Paratrajectura longcementglandatus Amin, Heckmann et (Acanthocephala: Transvenidae) from percid fishes in the marine waters of Iran and Iraq". Helminthologia. 57 (1): 1–11. doi:10.2478/helm-2020-0007. PMC 6996261. PMID 32063734.
  3. "ITIS - Report: Transvenidae".
  4. Huston, D. C., Cribb, T. H., & Smales, L. R. (2020). Molecular characterisation of acanthocephalans from Australian marine teleosts: proposal of a new family, synonymy of another and transfer of taxa between orders. Systematic Parasitology, 1-23.
  5. Johnston, T. H.; Edmonds, S. J. (1947). "Australian Acanthocephala No. 5". Transactions of the Royal Society of Australia. 71: 13–19.
  6. ^ Van Ha, Nguyen; Amin, Omar M.; Ngo, Ha Duy; Heckmann, Richard A. (2018). "Descriptions of acanthocephalans, Cathayacanthus spinitruncatus (Rhadinorhynchidae) male and Pararhadinorhynchus magnus n. sp. (Diplosentidae), from marine fish of Vietnam, with notes on Heterosentis holospinus (Arhythmacanthidae)". Parasite. 25: 35. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018032. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6057740. PMID 30040609. Open access icon
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