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Echinorhynchidae

Echinorhynchidae

Cobbold, 1876

GBIF:124874274

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Family Echinorhynchidae Cobbold, 1876

Brasacanthus sphoeroides Thatcher, 2001 —adult Host and habitat: Sphoeroides greeleyi (MAR) Locality: Off Parana

References: Thatcher (2001)

Echinorhynchus briconi Machado Filho, 1959 (syn. Metechinorhynchus briconi)—adult Host and habitat: Brycon hilarii (FW)

Locality: São Paulo

References: Machado Filho (1959c), Golvan (1969), Thatcher (1991, 2006)

Echinorhynchus gomesi Machado-Filho, 1948 —adult Host and habitat: Prochilodus nigricans (FW) Locality: Mato Grosso

References: Machado Filho (1948)

Echinorhynchus gracilis Machado Filho, 1948 —adult Host and habitat: Brycon hilarii (FW)

Locality: São Paulo

References: Machado Filho (1948)

Echinorhynchus jucundus Travassos, 1923 —adult Hosts and habitat: Piaractus brachypomus (syn. Colossoma bidens) (FW), Piaractus mesopotamicus (FW)

Locality: São João, Mato Grosso

References: Travassos (1923), Machado Filho (1948), Ferraz de Lima et al. (1990), Thatcher (1991, 2006)

Echinorhynchus paranensis Machado-Filho, 1959 —adult Host and habitat: Triportheus paranensis (FW) Locality: Mato Grosso

References: Machado Filho (1959c), Thatcher (1991)

Echinorhynchus salobrensis Machado Filho, 1948 —adult

Host and habitat: Mylossoma duriventre (syn. M. paraguayensis) (FW)

Locality: Salobra, Mato Grosso

References: Machado Filho (1948), Thatcher (1991) Echinorhynchus sp.—adult

Hosts and habitat: Brycon cephalus (FW), Schizodon borellii (FW)

Locality: Amazon River Basin, Upper Parana River/Paraná

References: Machado et al. (1994, 1995, 1996), Andrade et al. (2001), Pavanelli et al. (2004) Echinorhynchidae gen. sp.—adult

Host and habitat: Kyphosus sp. (MAR)

Locality: Off Rio de Janeiro

References: Gomes et al. (1974)

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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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
124874274
Dataset Key
296f6756-9e1c-418a-b744-82bb1c0ed414
Origin
source
Backbone Key
6939
Taxon ID
03A28C32EC41FFB5FF6741C1FDF0FDEC.taxon
Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
6/11/2026