Acanthogyrus is a genus of parasitic worms belonging to the family Quadrigyridae. The species of this genus are found in Africa.
Taxonomy
Golvan in 1959 divided the genus Acanthogyrus into two subgenera: Acanthogyrus and Acanthosentis based on the number of proboscis hooks; there are 18 (3 circles of 6 hooks each) in Acanthosentis and 24 (3 circles of 8 hooks each) in Acanthogyrus.
Description
There are between 18 and 24 hooks on the proboscis.
Species
There are many species in the genus Acanthogyrus.
Acanthogyrus (Acanthogyrus) <small>Thapar, 1927</small>
- Acanthogyrus acanthogyrus <small>Thapar, 1927</small>
Found in the intestine of a rohu (Labeo rohita) in Lucknow, and from the intestines of a catla (Catla catla) from Kolkata, both in India.
- Acanthogyrus tripathi <small>Rai, 1967</small>
Acanthogyrus (Acanthosentis) <small>Verma and Datta, 1929</small>
- Acanthogyrus acanthuri <small>(Cable and Quick, 1954)</small>
- Acanthogyrus adriaticus <small>Amin, 2005</small>
- Acanthogyrus alternatspinus <small>Amin, 2005</small>
- Acanthogyrus anguillae <small>(Wang, 1981)</small>
- Acanthogyrus antespinus <small>(Verma and Datta, 1929)</small>
- Acanthogyrus arii <small>(Bilqees, 1971)</small>
- Acanthogyrus bacailai <small>(Verma, 1973)</small>
- Acanthogyrus barmeshoori <small>Amin, Gholami, Akhlaghi and Heckmann, 2013</small>
A. barmeshoori was found infesting the Farsi toothcarp (Aphanius farsicus) in Maharloo Lake, Fars province, Iran.
- Acanthogyrus betwai <small>(Tripathi, 1956)</small>
- Acanthogyrus bilaspurensis <small>(Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1987)</small>
- Acanthogyrus cameroni <small>(Gupta and Kajaji, 1969)</small>
- Acanthogyrus cheni <small>Amin, 2005</small>
- Acanthogyrus dattai <small>(Podder, 1938)</small>
- Acanthogyrus giuris <small>(Soota and Sen, 1956)</small>
- Acanthogyrus gobindi <small>(Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1987)</small>
- Acanthogyrus golvani <small>(Gupta and Jain, 1980)</small>
- Acanthogyrus heterospinus <small>(Khan and Bilqees, 1990)</small>
- Acanthogyrus holospinus <small>(Sen, 1937)</small>
- Acanthogyrus indicus <small>(Tripathi, 1959)</small>
- Acanthogyrus intermedius <small>(Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941)</small>
- Acanthogyrus lizae <small>(Wang, 1986)</small>
- Acanthogyrus malawiensis <small>Amin and Hendrix, 1999</small>
- Acanthogyrus maroccanus <small>(Dollfus, 1951)</small>
- Acanthogyrus multispinus <small>Wang, 1966</small>
- Acanthogyrus nigeriensis <small>Dollfus and Golvan, 1956</small>
- Acanthogyrus papilo <small>Troncy and Vassiliades, 1974</small>
- Acanthogyrus parareceptaclis <small>Amin, 2005</small>
- Acanthogyrus partispinus <small>(Furtado, 1963)</small>
- Acanthogyrus paucispinus <small>Wang, 1966</small>
- Acanthogyrus periophthalmi <small>(Wang, 1980)</small>
- Acanthogyrus phillipi <small>(Mashego, 1988)</small>
- Acanthogyrus putitorae <small>(Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1988)</small>
- Acanthogyrus scomberomori <small>(Wang, 1980)</small>
- Acanthogyrus seenghalae <small>(Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1988)</small>
- Acanthogyrus shashiensis <small>(Tso, Chen, and Chien, 1974)</small>
- Acanthogyrus shuklai <small>(Agrawal and Singh, 1982)</small>
- Acanthogyrus siamensis <small>(Farooqi and Sirikanchana, 1987)</small>
- Acanthogyrus similis <small>(Wang, 1980)</small>
- Acanthogyrus sircari <small>(Podder, 1941)</small>
- Acanthogyrus thapari <small>(Parasad, Sahay and Shambhunath, 1969)</small>
- Acanthogyrus tilapiae <small>(Baylis, 1948)</small>
- Acanthogyrus vancleavei <small>(Gupta and Fatma, 1986)</small>
- Acanthogyrus vittatusi <small>(Verma, 1973)</small>
Hosts
Acanthogyrus parasitizes fish.
Distribution
The species of this genus are found in Africa.
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