Transvenidae
Transvenidae is a family of parasitic spiny-headed (or thorny-headed) worms in the order Echinorhynchida. This family contains three species divided into two genera.
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Acanthocephala |
Class: | Palaeacanthocephala |
Order: | Echinorhynchida |
Family: | Transvenidae Pichelin & Cribb, 2001[1] |
Taxonomy and description
Phylogenetic analysis has been conducted.[2]
Species
There are three genera and six species in the family Transvenidae:[3][4][lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]
Paratrajectura Amin, Heckmann et Ali, 2018
- Paratrajectura longcementglandatus Amin, Heckmann et Ali, 2018
Sclerocollum Schmidt and Paperna, 1978
- Sclerocollum robustum (Edmonds, 1964)
- Sclerocollum rubrimaris Schmidt and Paperna, 1978
- Sclerocollum saudii Al-Jahdali, 2010
Trajectura Pichelin & Cribb, 2001[1] Trajectura is distinguished by the possession of only two cement glands and an anterior conical projection (function unknown) on the females.[1]
- Trajectura ikedai (Machida, 1992)
Diplosentis ikedai was found to share similar anatomical features (only two cement glands and an anterior conical projection on females) was renamed T. ikedai.[1]
- Trajectura perinsolens Pichelin and Cribb, 2001
T. perinsolens Was found parasitising the New Guinea wrasse Anampses neoguinaicus from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.[1]
Transvena Pichelin & Cribb, 2001[1]
- Transvena annulospinosa Pichelin and Cribb, 2001
Hosts
- The New Guinea wrasse (Anampses neoguinaicus) is one of the hosts of T. perinsolens
Notes
- A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the present genus.
- Pararhadinorhynchus Johnston & Edmonds, 1947[5] including Pararhadinorhynchus magnus.[6] Pararhadinorhynchus is sometimes classified within the Diplosentidae.[6]
References
- Pichelin, S.; Cribb, T. (2001). "The status of the Diplosentidae (Acanthocephala: Palaeacanthocephala) and a new family of acanthocephalans from Australian wrasses (Pisces: Labridae)". Folia Parasitologica. 48 (4): 289–303. doi:10.14411/fp.2001.047.
- https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0007
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=993534#null
- Huston, D. C., Cribb, T. H., & Smales, L. R. (2020). Molecular characterisation of acanthocephalans from Australian marine teleosts: proposal of a new family, synonymy of another and transfer of taxa between orders. Systematic Parasitology, 1-23.
- Johnston, T. H.; Edmonds, S. J. (1947). "Australian Acanthocephala No. 5". Transactions of the Royal Society of Australia. 71: 13–19.
- Van Ha, Nguyen; Amin, Omar M.; Ngo, Ha Duy; Heckmann, Richard A. (2018). "Descriptions of acanthocephalans, Cathayacanthus spinitruncatus (Rhadinorhynchidae) male and Pararhadinorhynchus magnus n. sp. (Diplosentidae), from marine fish of Vietnam, with notes on Heterosentis holospinus (Arhythmacanthidae)". Parasite. 25: 35. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018032. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6057740. PMID 30040609.