Leptorhynchoididae

Leptorhynchoididae is a family of parasitic worms from the order Echinorhynchida.

Species

Leptorhynchoididae contains the following species:

Brentisentis Leotta, Schmidt & Kuntz, 1982 contains three species:

The species name chongqingensis was named after the location where the samples were collected: Chongqing, China.

B. uncinus was found infesting the small intestines of the Tank goby and Eleotris pisonis near the mouth of Keelung River, Taiwan.

Dentitruncus Sinzar, 1955 contains one species:

Golvan, 1969

Gupta & Jain, 1980

Golvan, 1969

Monks & Ponce de Leon, 1996

Yamaguti, 1959

M. laterolabracis is the type species.

[František František Moravec (parasitologist)|Moravec (parasitologist)|Moravec] & Sey, 1989

Achmerow & Dombrowskaja-Achmerova, 1941

P. cinereus was found infesting Stromateus cinereus in Pakistan.

P. mujibi was found infesting Stromateus sinensis in Pakistan.

Telosentis Van Cleve, 1923 is a genus of acanthocephalans. The representatives of the genus are distributed in tropical waters of Indian Ocean, Pacific coast of Australia and Mediterranean. Consists of five species:

T. exiguus is a widespread intestinal parasitic worm. Its hosts are marine and brackish water fish of the Mediterranean basin. This species is found in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Adriatic Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. T. exiguus is able to thrive in a variety hosts. It has been found as an intestinal parasite in anchovies, sand-smelts, shads, garfishes, eels, sticklebacks, pipe-fishes, grass gobies, some other gobies, blennies, and wrasses.
T. exiguus' tegument is covered with spines in anterior and posterior parts. Its cerebral ganglion located in central part of the proboscis sac, sometime moved to anterior region. Its proboscis is cylindrical or club-shaped, armed with 12 longitudinal rows of hooks of same type; the smaller hooks are in the posterior region of proboscis, larger is in its central part. The roots of the hooks have long forward-facing appendixes.
In the Black Sea the intermediate hosts of this acanthocephalan is the amphipod Apherusa bispinosa, in the coelom of which the cystacanthes are located. Fish are infested by feeding on amphipods infected with larvae.