Polymorphidae

Polymorphidae
Corynosoma wegeneri photomicrograph
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
(unranked):	Bilateria
Superphylum:	Platyzoa
Phylum:	Acanthocephala
Class:	Palaeacanthocephala
Order:	Polymorphida
Family:	Polymorphidae Meyer, 1931
Genera
Andracantha Schmidt, 1975 Ardeirhynchus Dimitrova & Georgiev, 1994 - tentatively placed here Arhythmorhynchus Lühe, 1911 Bolbosoma Porta, 1908 Corynosoma Lühe, 1904 Diplospinifer Fukui, 1929 Filicollis Lühe, 1911 Hexaglandula Polymorphus Lühe, 1911 Profilicollis Meyer, 1931--similar morphology to Polymorphus Southwellina Witenberg, 1932 - might belong in Arhythmorhynchus
Synonyms
Filicollidae Petrochenko, 1956

The thorny-headed worm family Polymorphidae contains endoparasites which as adults feed mainly in fish and aquatic birds. When this taxon was erected by Meyer in 1931, a subfamily Polymorphidae was established in it. As the Polymorphidae as presently understood would then be monotypic, with no basal genera outside the Polymorphinae, the proposed subfamily is redundant for the time being and therefore most modern treatments simply omit it.

Polymorphus minutus is an economically significant parasite in goose and duck farming.

Genera

Andracantha

Contains the following species:

• Andracantha gravida (Alegret, 1941)
• Andracantha mergi (Lundstroem, 1941)
• Andracantha phalacrocoracis (Yamaguti, 1939)

Arhythmorhynchus

Contains the following species:

• Arhythmorhynchus brevis Van Cleave, 1916
• Arhythmorhynchus capellae (Yamaguti, 1935)
• Arhythmorhynchus comptus Van Cleave and Rausch, 1950
• Arhythmorhynchus distinctus Baer, 1956
• Arhythmorhynchus eroliae (Yamaguti, 1939)
• Arhythmorhynchus frassoni (Molin, 1858)
• Arhythmorhynchus frontospinosus (Tubangui, 1935)
• Arhythmorhynchus jeffreyi Schmidt, 1973
• Arhythmorhynchus johnstoni Golvan, 1960
• Arhythmorhynchus limosae Edmonds, 1971
• Arhythmorhynchus longicollis (Villot, 1875)
• Arhythmorhynchus petrochenkoi (Schmidt, 1969)
• Arhythmorhynchus plicatus (Linstow, 1883)
• Arhythmorhynchus pumiliorostris Van Cleave, 1916
• Arhythmorhynchus siluricola Dollfus, 1929
• Arhythmorhynchus teres Van Cleave, 1920
• Arhythmorhynchus tigrinus Moghe and Das, 1953
• Arhythmorhynchus trichocephalus (Leuckart, 1876)
• Arhythmorhynchus tringi Gubanov, 1952
• Arhythmorhynchus uncinatus (Kaiser, 1893)
• Arhythmorhynchus xeni Atrashkevich, 1978

Bolbosoma

Contains the following species:

• Bolbosoma balaenae (Gmelin, 1790)
• Bolbosoma bobrovoi Krotov and Delamure, 1952
• Bolbosoma brevicolle (Malm, 1867)
• Bolbosoma caenoforme (Heitz, 1920)
• Bolbosoma capitatum (Linstow, 1880)
• Bolbosoma hamiltoni Baylis, 1929
• Bolbosoma heteracanthis (Heitz, 1917)
• Bolbosoma nipponicum Yamaguti, 1939
• Bolbosoma physeteris Gubanov, 1952
• Bolbosoma scomberomori Wang, 1980
• Bolbosoma thunni Harada, 1935
• Bolbosoma tuberculata Skrjabin, 1970
• Bolbosoma turbinella (Diesing, 1851)
• Bolbosoma vasculosum (Rudolphi, 1819)

Corynosoma

Contains the following species:

• Corynosoma alaskensis Golvan, 1958
• Corynosoma anatarium Van Cleave, 1945
• Corynosoma australe Johnston, 1937
• Corynosoma bullosum (Linstow, 1892)
• Corynosoma cameroni Van Cleave, 1953
• Corynosoma capsicum Golvan and Mokhayer, 1973
• Corynosoma clavatum Goss, 1941
• Corynosoma clementi Giovannoni and Fernandes, 1965
• Corynosoma constrictum Van Cleave, 1918
• Corynosoma curiliensis Gubanov, 1942
• Corynosoma enhydri Morozov, 1940
• Corynosoma enrietti Molfie and Fretas, 1953
• Corynosoma falcatum Van Cleave, 1953
• Corynosoma hadweni Van Cleave, 1953
• Corynosoma hamanni (Linstow, 1892)
• Corynosoma kurilensis Gubanov, 1952
• Corynosoma longilemniscatus Machado, 1961
• Corynosoma macrosomum Neiland, 1962
• Corynosoma magdaleni Montreuil, 1958
• Corynosoma mandarinca Oschmarin, 1963
• Corynosoma mirabilis Skrjabin, 1966
• Corynosoma obtuscens Lincicome, 1943
• Corynosoma otariae Morini and Boero, 1961
• Corynosoma pacifica Nikolskii, 1974
• Corynosoma peposacae (Porta, 1914)
• Corynosoma pyriforme (Bremser, 1824)
• Corynosoma rauschi Golvan, 1958
• Corynosoma reductum (Linstow, 1905)
• Corynosoma semerme (Forssell, 1904)
• Corynosoma septentrionalis Treshchev, 1966
• Corynosoma seropedicus Machado, 1970
• Corynosoma shackletoni Zdzitowiecki, 1978
• Corynosoma similis Neiland, 1962
• Corynosoma singularis Skrjabin and Nilolskii, 1971
• Corynosoma strumosum (Rudolphi, 1802)
• Corynosoma sudsuche Belopolskaia, 1958
• Corynosoma tunitae Weiss, 1914
• Corynosoma turbidum Van Cleave, 1937
• Corynosoma validum Van Cleave, 1953
• Corynosoma ventronudum Skrjabin, 1959
• Corynosoma villosum Van Cleave, 1953
• Corynosoma wegeneri Heinze, 1934

Diplospinifer

Contains the following species:

• Diplospinifer serpenticola Fukui, 1929

Filicollis

Contains the following species:

• Filicollis anatis (Schrank, 1788)
• Filicollis trophimenkoi Atrashkevich, 1982

Hexaglandula

Contains the following species:

• Hexaglandula ariusus Bilgees, 1971
• Hexaglandula corynosoma (Travassos, 1915)
• Hexaglandula inermis (Travassos, 1923)
• Hexaglandula karachiensis Bilgees, 1971
• Hexaglandula mutabilis (Rudolphi, 1819)
• Hexaglandula paucihamatus (Heinze, 1936)

Polymorphus

Contains the following species:

• Polymorphus actuganensis Petrochenko, 1949
• Polymorphus acutis Van Cleave and Starrett, 1940
• Polymorphus biziurae Johnston and Edmonds, 1948
• Polymorphus cetaceum (Johnston and Best, 1942)
• Polymorphus cincli Belopolskaya, 1959
• Polymorphus contortus (Bremser, 1821)
• Polymorphus corynoides Skrjabin, 1913
• Polymorphus crassus Van Cleave, 1924
• Polymorphus cucullatus Van Cleave and Starrett, 1940
• Polymorphus diploinflatus Lundström, 1942
• Polymorphus gavii Hokhlova, 1965
• Polymorphus kostylewi Petrochenko, 1949
• Polymorphus magnus Skrjabin, 1913
• Polymorphus marchii (Porta, 1910)
• Polymorphus marilis Van Cleave, 1939
• Polymorphus mathevossianae Petrochenko, 1949
• Polymorphus meyeri Lundström, 1942
• Polymorphus miniatus (Linstow, 1896)
• Polymorphus obtusus Van Cleave, 1918
• Polymorphus paradoxus Connell and Corner, 1957
• Polymorphus phippsi Kostylev, 1922
• Polymorphus striatus (Goeze, 1782)
• Polymorphus strumosoides Lundström, 1942
• Polymorphus swartzi Schmidt, 1965
• Polymorphus trochus Van Cleave, 1945

Profilicollis

Contains the following species:

• Profilicollis altmani (Perry, 1942)
• Profilicollis arcticus (Van Cleave, 1920)
• Profilicollis antarcticus (Zdzitowiecki, 1985)
• Profilicollis botulus (Van Cleave, 1916)
• Profilicollis bullocki (Mateo, 1982)
• Profilicollis chasmagnathi (Holcman-Spector, Mane-Garzon and Dei-Cas, 1977)
• Profilicollis formosus (Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967)
• Profilicollis kenti (Van Cleave, 1947)
• Profilicollis major (Lundström, 1942)
• Profilicollis minutus (Goeze, 1782)
• Profilicollis novaezelandensis (Brockerhoff, 2002)
• Profilicollis sphaerocephalus (Bremser, 1819)
• Profilicollis texensis (Webster, 1948)

Southwellina

Contains the following species:

• Southwellina dimorpha Schmidt, 1973 (= Ibirhynchus dimorpha^[1])
• Southwellina hispida (Van Cleave, 1925)
• Southwellina macracanthus (Ward and Winter, 1952)

References

1. ↑ García-Varela, Martín; de León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce; Aznar, Francisco J; Nadler, Steven A. (2011). "Erection of Ibirhynchus gen. nov. (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae), based on molecular and morphological data.". Journal of Parasitology 97 (1): 97–105. doi:10.1645/ge-2350.1. 

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