WoRMS taxon details
Acanthocephala
AphiaID: 18814
AphiaID: 18814
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Phylum | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Animalia | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa | Class Archiacanthocephala Class Eoacanthocephala Class Palaeacanthocephala | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Biology: Thorny-headed worms, or acanthocephalans, are parasites that live in the gut of vertebrates and - earlier in their life cycle - within invertebrates. The thorny protrusible proboscis is globular or cylindrical; the body also may bear spiny thorns. These parasitic worms anchor themselves with their proboscis and body spines to the gut wall of a host. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:18814 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Acanthocephala. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=18814 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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