Cavisomidae


Cavisomidae are a family of parasitic worms from the order Echinorhynchida.

Species

Cavisomidae contains ten genera:

Caballerorhynchus

Caballerorhynchus Salgado-Maldonado, 1977 contains one species:
  • Caballerorhynchus lamothei Salgado-Maldonado, 1977

Cavisoma

Cavisoma Van Cleave, 1931 contains one species: Cavisoma magnum
C. magnum Van Cleave, 1931 was originally described as Oligoterorhynchus magnus by Southwell from the stomach and pyloric ceca of the sea bass, Serranus sp. and from another fish, the spotted surgeonfish Ctenochaetus strigosus off Negapatam,. Other hosts include milkfish Chanos chanos, Siganus lineatus, and Grey mullet, Mugil cephalus. Localities include Sri Lanka, the Red Sea, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Iraq.

Echinorhynchoides

Echinorhynchoides Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941 contains one species:
  • Echinorhynchoides dogieli Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941

Femogibbosus

Femogibbosus Paruchin, 1973 contains only one species, Femogibbosus assi Paruchin, 1973.

Filisoma

Filisoma Van Cleave, 1928 contains many species:
  • Filisoma acanthocybii Wang, Wang & Wu, 1993
  • Filisoma atropi Wang and Wang, 1988
  • Filisoma bucerium Van Cleave, 1940
  • Filisoma fidum Van Cleve & Manter, 1947
  • Filisoma filiformis Weaver & Smales, 2013
  • Filisoma indicum Van Cleave, 1928
  • Filisoma inglisi Gupta & Naqvi, 1986
  • Filisoma longcementglandatus Amin & Nahhas, 1994
  • Filisoma micracanthi Harada, 1938
  • Filisoma oplegnathi Wang & Wang, 1988
  • Filisoma rizalinum Tubangui & Masiluñgan, 1946
  • Filisoma scatophagusi Datta & Soota, 1962

Megapriapus

Megapriapus Golvan, Gracia-Rodrigo and Diaz-Ungria, 1964 contains one species:
  • 'Megapriapus ungriai'''''

Neorhadinorhynchus

Neorhadinorhynchus Yamaguti, 1939 contains many species:
  • Neorhadinorhynchus aspinosus
  • Neorhadinorhynchus atlanticus Gaevskaja & Nigmatulin, 1977
  • Neorhadinorhynchus atypicalis Amin & Ha, 2011
  • Neorhadinorhynchus macrospinosus Amin & Nahhas, 1994
  • Neorhadinorhynchus madagascariensis Golvan, 1969
  • Neorhadinorhynchus myctophumi Mordvilkova, 1988
  • 'Neorhadinorhynchus nudus'''''

Paracavisoma

Paracavisoma Kritscher, 1957 contains one species:
  • 'Paracavisoma impudica'''''

Pseudocavisoma

Pseudocavisoma Golvan & Houin, 1964 contains one speciesPseudocavisoma chromitidis Golvan & Houin, 1964

Rhadinorhynchoides

Rhadinorhynchoides Fukui and Morisita, 1937 contains one species
  • Rhadinorhynchoides miyagawai Fukui and Morisita, 1937

Hosts

Cavisomidae species parasitize fish.