WoRMS taxon details
Echinorhynchus salmonis Müller, 1784
159698 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159698)
accepted
Species
Echinorhynchus coregoni Linkins in Van Cleave, 1919 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Metechinorhynchus coregoni (Linkins in Van Cleave, 1919) Golvan, 1969 · unaccepted (Superseded combination)
Metechinorhynchus salmonis (Müller, 1784) Petrochenko, 1956 · unaccepted (Superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh
Müller, O. F. (1784). Zoologia danica seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum historia descriptiones et historia. <em>[book].</em> [two volumes] 1: 1-103 / 2: 1-124 Weygand., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12938667 [details]
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Gibson, D.; Wayland, M. (2026). World List of marine Acanthocephala. Echinorhynchus salmonis Müller, 1784. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159698 on 2026-10-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Müller, O. F. (1784). Zoologia danica seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum historia descriptiones et historia. <em>[book].</em> [two volumes] 1: 1-103 / 2: 1-124 Weygand., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12938667 [details]
original description (of Echinorhynchus coregoni Linkins in Van Cleave, 1919) Van Cleave, H. J. (1919). Acanthocephala from the Illinois River, with descriptions of species and a synopsis of the Fam. Neoechinorhynchidae. <em>Urbana Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey.</em> 13(Art. 8), (222-257)., available online at https://doi.org/10.21900/j.inhs.v13.332 [details]
basis of record Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Echinorhynchus coregoni Linkins in Van Cleave, 1919) Van Cleave, H. J. (1919). Acanthocephala from the Illinois River, with descriptions of species and a synopsis of the Fam. Neoechinorhynchidae. <em>Urbana Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey.</em> 13(Art. 8), (222-257)., available online at https://doi.org/10.21900/j.inhs.v13.332 [details]
basis of record Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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redescription
Arai, H. P. (1989). Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada. Part III. Acanthocephala. L. Margolis and Z. Kabata (Eds). <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 107: 1-90. [details]
redescription Wayland, M. T.; Gibson, D. I.; Sommerville, C. (2004). Echinorhynchus salmonis Müller, 1784 (Acanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae) from the Bothnian Bay, Baltic Sea: morphological variability and radial asymmetry of proboscis hooks. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 58(2): 149-158., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/b:sypa.0000029419.07989.1a [details]
redescription Wayland, M. T.; Gibson, D. I.; Sommerville, C. (2004). Echinorhynchus salmonis Müller, 1784 (Acanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae) from the Bothnian Bay, Baltic Sea: morphological variability and radial asymmetry of proboscis hooks. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 58(2): 149-158., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/b:sypa.0000029419.07989.1a [details]
Other
additional source
Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers). (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London. <em>https://doi.org/10.5519/nplk7c5u.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5519/nplk7c5u [details]
additional source Rusinek, O. T. (2023). Parasite fauna of sand and stone sculpins (Scorpaeniformes, Cottidae) from Lake Baikal (review of research results and prospects of investigations). <em>Parazitologiya.</em> 57 (6), 481-497 (Russian)., available online at https://doi.org/10.31857/s0031184723060030 [details]
additional source Wayland, M. T.; Vainio, J. K.; Gibson, D. I.; Herniou, E. A.; Littlewood, D. T. J.; Väinölä, R. (2015). The systematics of Echinorhynchus Zoega in Müller, 1776 (Acanthocephala, Echinorhynchidae) elucidated by nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data from eight European taxa. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 484: 25-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.484.9132 [details]
additional source Rusinek, O. T. (2023). Parasite fauna of sand and stone sculpins (Scorpaeniformes, Cottidae) from Lake Baikal (review of research results and prospects of investigations). <em>Parazitologiya.</em> 57 (6), 481-497 (Russian)., available online at https://doi.org/10.31857/s0031184723060030 [details]
additional source Wayland, M. T.; Vainio, J. K.; Gibson, D. I.; Herniou, E. A.; Littlewood, D. T. J.; Väinölä, R. (2015). The systematics of Echinorhynchus Zoega in Müller, 1776 (Acanthocephala, Echinorhynchidae) elucidated by nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data from eight European taxa. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 484: 25-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.484.9132 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype BMNH 2002.2.4.132-226, geounit Bothnian Bay [details]
Nontype BMNH 2002.2.4.227-263, geounit Bothnian Bay [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]Habitat endoparasite found as larvae in Gammarus lawrencianus [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Metechinorhynchus salmonis (Müller, 1784) Petrochenko, 1956)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echinorhynchus salmonis)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI (from synonym Metechinorhynchus salmonis (Müller, 1784) Petrochenko, 1956)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Metechinorhynchus salmonis (Müller, 1784) Petrochenko, 1956)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echinorhynchus salmonis)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI (from synonym Metechinorhynchus salmonis (Müller, 1784) Petrochenko, 1956)
To ITIS
