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Polyacanthorhynchidae

Polyacanthorhynchidae

Golvan, 1956

GBIF:124874273

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Family Polyacanthorhynchidae Golvan, 1956

Polyacanthorhynchus macrorhynchus (Diesing, 1856) —adult

Host and habitat: Arapaima gigas (FW)

Locality: Amazon River basin

References: Diesing (1856), Travassos (1919), Travassos et al. (1928), Machado Filho (1947), Golvan (1956), Travassos and Freitas (1964), Thatcher (1991, 2006)

Polyacanthorhynchus rhopalorhynchus (Diesing, 1851) —adult Host and habitat: Arapaima gigas (FW)

Localities: Amazon River basin, Mato Grosso

References: Diesing (1851), Baylis (1927), Travassos (1919), Travassos et al. (1928), Machado Filho (1947), Thatcher (1991, 2006)

Santos, Cláudia P., Gibson, David I., Tavares, Luiz E. R., Luque, José L. (2008): Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil. Zootaxa 1938: 1-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184999MagnoliaPress via PlaziNo known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

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AnimaliaAcanthocephalaPalaeacanthocephalaEchinorhynchidaPolyacanthorhynchidae

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Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Santos, Cláudia P., Gibson, David I., Tavares, Luiz E. R., Luque, José L. (2008): Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil. Zootaxa 1938: 1-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184999

Abstract

Twenty-three genera comprising thirty-four named and thirteen undetermined species of acanthocephalans are associated with one hundred and nineteen marine, brackish and freshwater fish species from Brazil. These are listed, with information on their hosts, habitat, distribution and records. A key to these parasites at the generic level is provided.

Key words: Acanthocephala, biodiversity, checklist, freshwater and marine fishes, key, Neotropics, Brazil

Santos C P, Gibson D I, Tavares L E R, Luque J L, plazi (2008). Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.184999 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

CC0Published 12/31/2008View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
124874273
Dataset Key
296f6756-9e1c-418a-b744-82bb1c0ed414
Origin
source
Backbone Key
6942
Taxon ID
03A28C32EC44FFB7FF674129FDD2FABC.taxon
Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
6/11/2026
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