Isthomosacanthidae is a family of parasitic spiny-headed (or thorny-headed) worms.
Species
Isthomosacanthidae contains the following genera and species:
Golvanorhynchus
Golvanorhynchus <small>Noronha, Fabio & Pinto, 1978</small> contains one species.
- Golvanorhynchus golvani <small>Noronha, Fabio & Magalhaes, 1978</small>
G. golvani was found parasitizing the Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias).
Gorgorhynchoides
Gorgorhynchoides <small>Cable and Linderoth, 1963</small> contains many species.
- Gorgorhynchoides bullocki <small>Cable and Mafarachisi, 1970</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides cablei <small>(Gupta and Fatma, 1987)</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides cribbi <small>Smales, 2014</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides elongatus <small>Cable and Linderoth, 1963</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides epinepheli <small>Wang, 1986</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides gnathanodontos <small>Smales, 2014</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides golvani <small>(Chandra, Hanumantha-Rao and Shyamasundari, 1984)</small>
Found in Australia and has 14 to 16 rows of 3 large, 7 spiniform hooks on their proboscis.
- Gorgorhynchoides indicus <small>Bhattacharya and Banerjee, 2003</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides lintoni <small>Cable and Mafarachisi, 1970</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides orientalis <small>(Wang, 1966)</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides queenslandensis <small>Smales, 2014</small>
- Gorgorhynchoides valiyathurae <small>(Nadakal, John and Jacob, 1990)</small>
Serrasentis
Serrasentis <small>Van Cleave, 1923</small> contains many species.
- Serrasentis engraulisi <small>Gupta & Gupta, 1980</small>
- Serrasentis fotedari <small>Gupta & Fatma, 1980</small>
- Serrasentis gibsoni
- Serrasentis golvani <small>Gupta & Kumar, 1987</small>
- Serrasentis lamelliger <small>(Diesing, 1854)</small>
- Serrasentis manazo <small>Bilqees & Khan, 2005</small>
- Serrasentis mujibi <small>Bilqees, 1972</small>
- Serrasentis nadakali <small>George & Nadakal, 1978</small>
- Serrasentis niger <small>Kahatoon and Bilqees, 2007</small>
- Serrasentis psenesi <small>Gupta & Gupta, 1980</small>
- Serrasentis sagittifer <small>(Linton, 1889)</small>
- Serrasentis sauridae <small>Surekha and Vijayalakshmi, 2006</small>
- Serrasentis sciaenus <small>Bilqees, 1972</small>
- Serrasentis sidaroszakaio <small>Tadros, Iskandar & Wassef, 1979</small>
Hosts
Isthomosacanthidae species parasitize fish hosts.
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