Quadrigyridae

Quadrigyridae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Acanthocephala
Class: Eoacanthocephala
Order: Gyracanthocephala
Van Cleve, 1936
Family: Quadrigyridae
Van Cleve, 1920
Subfamilies

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.

Species

Species in Quadrigyridae are divided into two subfamilies: Pallisentinae Van Cleave, 1928 with five genera and Quadrigyrinae Van Cleave, 1920 with three.

Pallisentinae Van Cleave, 1928

Acanthogyrus

Golvan in 1959 divided the genus Acanthogyrus Thapar, 1927 into two subgenera: Acanthogyrus and Acanthosentis based on the number of proboscis hooks; there are 18 (3 circles of 6 hooks each) in Acanthosentis and 24 (3 circles of 8 hooks each) in Acanthogyrus.

Acanthogyrus (Acanthogyrus) Thapar, 1927

Acanthogyrus (Acanthosentis) Verma and Datta, 1929

Hexaspiron

Hexaspiron Dollfus and Golvan, 1956 contains two species:

Palliolisentis

Palliolisentis Machado-Filho, 1960 contains three species:

Pallisentis

Pallisentis Van Cleave, 1928 is divided into three subgenera: Brevitritospinus, Demidueterospinus, and Pallisentis with 26 species:

Pallisentis (Brevitritospinus) Amin, Heckmann, Ha, Luc and Doanh, 2000

Pallisentis (Demidueterospinus) Amin, Heckmann, Ha, Luc and Doanh, 2000

Pallisentis (Pallisentis) Van Cleave, 1928

Pararaosentis

Pararaosentis Amin, Heckmann, Ha, Luc and Doanh, 2000 contains only one species:

Raosentis

Raosentis Datta, 1947 contains five species:

Triaspiron

Triaspiron Smales, Aydogdu and Emre, 2012 contains only one species:

Quadrigyrinae Van Cleave, 1920

Acanthodelta

Acanthodelta Diaz-Ungria and Gracia-Rodrigo, 1958 contains one species:

Machadosentis

Machadosentis Noronha, 1992 contains only one species:

Quadrigyrus

Quadrigyrus Van Cleave, 1920 contains 9 species:

Hosts

Quadrigyridae species parasitize fish.

Notes

  1. ^ A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the present genus.

References

  1. ^ Louizi, Halima; Hill-Spanik, Kristina M.; Qninba, Abdeljebbar; Connors, Vincent A.; Belafhaili, Amine; Agnèse, Jean-Francois; Pariselle, Antoine; de Buron, Isaure (2022). "Parasites of Moroccan desert Coptodon guineensis (Pisces, Cichlidae): transition and resilience in a simplified hypersaline ecosystem". Parasite. 29: 64. doi:10.1051/parasite/2022064. PMC 9879152. PMID 36562431. Open access icon
  2. ^ Amin, O. M; Heckmann, R. A.; Ha, Nguyen Van; Luc, Pham Van; Doanh, Pham Ngoc (2000). "Revision of the genus Pallisentis (Acanthocephala : Quadrigyridae) with the erection of three new subgenera, the description of Pallisentis (Brevitritospinus) vietnamensis subgen. et sp. n., a key to species of Pallisentis, and the description of a new quadrigyrid genus, Pararaosentis gen. n". Comparative Parasitology. 67 (1): 40–50. INIST 1261582.
  3. ^ a b Gupta, R; Maurya, R; Saxena, AM (January 2015). "Two New Species of the Genus Pallisentis Van Cleave, 1928 (Acanthocephala: Quadrigyridae) from the Intestine of Channa punctatus (Bloch, 1793) from the River Gomti at Lucknow, India". Iranian Journal of Parasitology. 10 (1): 116–21. PMC 4403530. PMID 25904954.
  4. ^ Gupta, Neelima; Gupta, Dileep K.; Singhal, Priyanka (2015). "Description of Pallisentis (Brevitritospinus) punctati n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Quadrigyridae) from Channa punctatus in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India". Iranian Journal of Parasitology. 10 (4): 605–616. PMC 4724838. PMID 26811728.