Trypanorhyncha

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Cestoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Platyhelminthes Class: Cestoda Order: Trypanorhyncha
Families
Subclass Acystidea Paranybeliniidae Tentaculariidae Hepatoxylidae Sphyriocephalidae Subclass Cystidea Dasyrhynchidae Mustelicolidae Lacistorhynchidae Pterobothriidae Gymnorhynchidae Otobothriidae Rhinoptericolidae Tetrarhynchobothriidae Gilquiniidae Eutetrarhynchidae Hornelliellidae Pseudogrillotiidae

Trypanorhyncha is an order of cestode, a type of Flatworm.

Some species infect gamefish, such as sciaenids, during the parasitic worm's plerocercoid stage, and are commonly called spaghetti worm because of their appearance, approximating cooked spaghetti. Such species include Poecilancistrium caryophyllum and Pseudogrillotia pleistacantha.