CaRMS taxon details
original description
Cleave, H. J. V.; Starrett, W. C. (1940). The Acanthocephala of Wild Ducks in Central Illinois, with Descriptions of Two New Species. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 59(3): 348-353., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3222551 [details]
basis of record
Amin, O.M. 1998. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States: Acanthocephala. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 135. U.S. Department of Commerce. 27 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Salgado-Maldonado, G. and O. M. Amin. 2009. Acanthocephala of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 539–552 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Unverified
Diet obligate intestinal parasites that lack their own digestive system. [details]
Distribution unknown; lack of study done on this group in the Bay of Fundy and surrounding waters [details]
Habitat adults: vertebrate intestinal tracts [details]
Reproduction dioecious [details]
remark definitive hosts include: Anas platyrhynchos, A. acuta, A. clypeata, A. strepera, Bucephala clangula, Larus argentatus, Podiceps grisegena [details]
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