WoRMS taxon details
Parorchis acanthus Nicoll
AphiaID: 158687
AphiaID: 158687
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Platyhelminthes (Phylum) > Trematoda (Class) > Digenea (Subclass) > Plagiorchiida (Order) > Echinostomata (Suborder) > Echinostomatoidea (Superfamily) > Philophthalmidae (Family) > Parorchis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Parorchis Nicoll, 1907 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Parorchis acanthus australis (synonym) Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Checklist of Antarctic and Subantarctic Digenea (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Diggles, B.; Hine, P.M. (2009). Aquatic Trematoda and Cestoda (Turbellaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Parorchis acanthus australis accepted as Parorchis acanthus Nicoll | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Antarctic Ocean [details] Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: parasitic on host [details] Distribution: geographic range not obtained; has been recorded in the Bay of Fundy [details] Habitat: parasitic [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158687 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Zdzitowiecki, K. (2013). Parorchis acanthus Nicoll. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158687 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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