WoRMS taxon details
Arhythmorhynchus brevis (Van Cleave, 1916)
AphiaID: 159682
AphiaID: 159682
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Acanthocephala (Phylum) > Palaeacanthocephala (Class) > Polymorphida (Order) > Polymorphidae (Family) > Arhythmorhynchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Arhythmorhynchus Lühe, 1911 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Polymorphus brevis (Van Cleave, 1916) Travassos, 1926 (synonym) Southwellina breve Van Cleave, 1916 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Amin, O.M. 1998. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States: Acanthocephala. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 135. U.S. Department of Commerce. 27 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Salgado-Maldonado, G. and O. M. Amin. 2009. Acanthocephala of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 539–552 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: obligate intestinal parasites that lack their own digestive system. [details] Distribution: unknown; lack of study done on this group in the Bay of Fundy and surrounding waters [details] Habitat: adults: vertebrate intestinal tracts [details] remark: definitive hosts include: Nycticorax nycticorax, Gavia immer, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos from the described area [details] Reproduction: dioecious [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159682 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gibson, D. (2013). Arhythmorhynchus brevis (Van Cleave, 1916). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159682 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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