WoRMS taxon details
Polymorphus phippsi Kostylev, 1922
147798 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:147798)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Kostylev, N. (1922). Sur les Acanthocéphales de l'eider (Somateria mollissima L.). <em>Parasitology Cambridge.</em> 14: 372-377. [details]
Gibson, D.; Wayland, M. (2025). World List of marine Acanthocephala. Polymorphus phippsi Kostylev, 1922. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147798 on 2025-06-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Kostylev, N. (1922). Sur les Acanthocéphales de l'eider (Somateria mollissima L.). <em>Parasitology Cambridge.</em> 14: 372-377. [details]
basis of record The Zoological Record: records of zoological literature relating chiefly to the year. Zoological Society of London City: London, UK. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record The Zoological Record: records of zoological literature relating chiefly to the year. Zoological Society of London City: London, UK. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Diumina, A. V.; Galaktionov, K. V.; Atrashkevich, G. I. (2024). Phylogenetic position of <i>Polymorphus phippsi</i> Kostylew, 1922 and <i>Polymorphus magnus</i> Skrjabin, 1913 (Palaeacanthocephala, Polymorphidae) ascertained on the basis of molecular data. <em>Паразитология.</em> 58(1): 56-63., available online at https://doi.org/10.31857/s0031184724010058 [details]
Other
additional source
Vinogradova, A. A.; Skvortsov, V. (2022). Duck helminths of the North Western Russia and Estonia. <em>Parazitologiya.</em> 56 (2), 108-125. [details]
additional source Schwantes, U. (2023). Impact of anthropogenous environmental factors on the marine ecosystem of trophically transmitted helminths and hosting seabirds: Focus on North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic and the Arctic seas. <em>Helminthologia.</em> 60(4): 300-326., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2023-0034 [details]
additional source Schwantes, U. (2023). Impact of anthropogenous environmental factors on the marine ecosystem of trophically transmitted helminths and hosting seabirds: Focus on North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic and the Arctic seas. <em>Helminthologia.</em> 60(4): 300-326., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2023-0034 [details]





Unreviewed
Ecology For a comprehensive list of hosts see Wülker et al. (1933). [details]