WoRMS taxon details
Acanthocephala AphiaID: 18814
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Acanthocephala (Phylum)
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| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 (4) [sort alpha..] | Class Archiacanthocephala Class EoacanthocephalaClass PalaeacanthocephalaClass Polyacanthocephala accepted as Eoacanthocephala | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Links |  To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note | From other sources
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 (2004). Acanthocephala. In: Gibson, D. (2017). World list of marine Acanthocephala. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=18814 on 2017-07-09 | |||||||||||||||||
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