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Acanthocephalus Koelreuther, 1771 
AphiaID: 20296

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Acanthocephala (Phylum) > Palaeacanthocephala (Class) > Echinorhynchida (Order) > Echinorhynchidae (Family) > Echinorhynchinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Echinorhynchinae Cobbold, 1876
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Smales, L.; Pichelin, S. (2009). Acanthocephala. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Acanthocephalus anguillae (Müller, 1780)
Species Acanthocephalus clavula Dujardin, 1845
Species Acanthocephalus dirus (Van Cleave, 1924)
Species Acanthocephalus echigoensis Fujita, 1920
Species Acanthocephalus elongatus Van Cleave, 1937
Species Acanthocephalus goaensis Jain & Gupta, 1981
Species Acanthocephalus gracilacanthus Meyer, 1932
Species Acanthocephalus japonicus Fukui & Morisita, 1936
Species Acanthocephalus lizus Li, 1984
Species Acanthocephalus lucii (Müller, 1777)

Species Acanthocephalus incrassatus (Molin, 1858) accepted as Acanthocephaloides incrassatus (Molin, 1858)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:20296
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2010-01-25 13:04:28Z  changed  Gibson, David
  
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  Citation: Gibson, D. (2013). Acanthocephalus Koelreuther, 1771. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=20296 on 2013-06-20
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