Cavisomidae are a family of parasitic worms from the order Echinorhynchida.
Species
Cavisomidae contains ten genera:
Caballerorhynchus
Caballerorhynchus <small>Salgado-Maldonado, 1977</small> contains one species:
- Caballerorhynchus lamothei <small>Salgado-Maldonado, 1977</small>
Cavisoma
Cavisoma <small>Van Cleave, 1931</small> contains one species:
- Cavisoma magnum <small>(Southwell, 1927)</small>
C. magnum (Southwell, 1927) Van Cleave, 1931 was originally described as Oligoterorhynchus magnus by Southwell from the stomach and pyloric ceca of the sea bass, Serranus sp. (Serranidae) and from another fish, the spotted surgeonfish Ctenochaetus strigosus (Acanthuridae) off Negapatam, (Sri Lanka). Other hosts include milkfish Chanos chanos (Chanidae), Siganus lineatus (Siganidae), and Grey mullet, Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae). Localities include Sri Lanka, the Red Sea, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Iraq.
Echinorhynchoides
Echinorhynchoides <small>Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941</small> contains one species:
- Echinorhynchoides dogieli <small>Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941</small>
Femogibbosus
Femogibbosus <small>Paruchin, 1973</small> contains only one species, Femogibbosus assi <small>Paruchin, 1973</small>.
Filisoma
Filisoma <small>Van Cleave, 1928</small> contains many species:
- Filisoma acanthocybii <small>Wang, Wang & Wu, 1993</small>
- Filisoma atropi <small>Wang and Wang, 1988</small>
- Filisoma bucerium <small>Van Cleave, 1940</small>
- Filisoma fidum <small>Van Cleve & Manter, 1947</small>
- Filisoma filiformis <small>Weaver & Smales, 2013</small>
- Filisoma indicum <small>Van Cleave, 1928</small>
- Filisoma inglisi <small>Gupta & Naqvi, 1986</small>
- Filisoma longcementglandatus <small>Amin & Nahhas, 1994</small>
- Filisoma micracanthi <small> Harada, 1938</small>
- Filisoma oplegnathi <small>Wang & Wang, 1988</small>
- Filisoma rizalinum <small> Tubangui & Masiluñgan, 1946</small>
- Filisoma scatophagusi <small> Datta & Soota, 1962</small>
Megapriapus
Megapriapus <small>Golvan, Gracia-Rodrigo and Diaz-Ungria, 1964</small> contains one species:
- Megapriapus ungriai <small>(Gracia-Rodrigo, 1960)</small>
Neorhadinorhynchus
Neorhadinorhynchus <small>Yamaguti, 1939</small> contains many species:
- Neorhadinorhynchus aspinosus <small>(Fukui and Morisita, 1937)</small>
- Neorhadinorhynchus atlanticus <small>Gaevskaja & Nigmatulin, 1977</small>
- Neorhadinorhynchus atypicalis <small>Amin & Ha, 2011</small>
- Neorhadinorhynchus macrospinosus <small>Amin & Nahhas, 1994</small>
- Neorhadinorhynchus madagascariensis <small>Golvan, 1969</small>
- Neorhadinorhynchus myctophumi <small>Mordvilkova, 1988</small>
- Neorhadinorhynchus nudus <small>(Harada, 1938)</small>
Paracavisoma
Paracavisoma <small>Kritscher, 1957</small> contains one species:
- Paracavisoma impudica <small>(Diesing, 1851)</small>
Pseudocavisoma
Pseudocavisoma <small>Golvan & Houin, 1964</small> contains one species
- Pseudocavisoma chromitidis <small>(Cable and Quick, 1954) Golvan & Houin, 1964</small>
Rhadinorhynchoides
Rhadinorhynchoides <small>Fukui and Morisita, 1937</small> contains one species
- Rhadinorhynchoides miyagawai <small>Fukui and Morisita, 1937</small>
Hosts
Cavisomidae species parasitize fish.
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