Plagiorhynchidae is a family of parasitic Acanthocephalan worms.
Species
Genera in Plagiorhynchidae are divided into three subfamilies: Plagiorhynchinae, Porrorchinae, and Sphaerechinorhynchinae.
Plagiorhynchinae <small>Meyer, 1931</small>
Paralueheia
Paralueheia<small>Saxena & Gupta, 2008</small> contains only one species, Paralueheia guptai <small>Saxena & Gupta, 2008</small>
Plagiorhynchus
Species in Plagiorhynchus <small>Lühe, 1911</small> are divided into two subgenera: Plagiorhynchus and Prosthorhynchus.
P. aznari was found infesting a long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) from northern Mexico.
- Plagiorhynchus charadrii <small>Yamaguti, 1939)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus charadriicola <small>Dollfus, 1953)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus crassicollis <small>Villot, 1875)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus freitasi <small>Vicente, 1977</small>
- Plagiorhynchus karachiensis <small>Muti-ur-Rahman, Khan, Khatoon and Bilqees, 2008</small>
- Plagiorhynchus lemnisalis <small>Belopolskaya, 1958</small>
- Plagiorhynchus linearis <small>Westrumb, 1821)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus menurae <small>Johnston, 1912)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus odhneri <small>Lundström, 1942</small>
- Plagiorhynchus paulus <small>Van Cleave and Williams, 1950</small>
- Plagiorhynchus pigmentatus <small>de Marval, 1902)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus ponticus <small>Lisitsyna, 1992</small>
- Plagiorhynchus rectus <small>Linton, 1892)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus rosai <small>Porta, 1910)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus rostratus <small>de Marval, 1902)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus totani <small>Porta, 1910)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus urichi <small>Cameron, 1936)</small>
Prosthorhynchus
Prosthorhynchus <small>Kostylew, 1915</small> contains many species:
P. cylindraceus was found infesting the Austral thrush (Turdus falcklandii) in central Chile. Janice Moore discovered P. cylindraceus to be a parasite that infects an intermediate host, the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare, which alters its behavior and becomes more susceptible to P. cylindraceus primary host, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).
- Plagiorhynchus deysarkari <small>Bhattacharya, 2002</small>
- Plagiorhynchus digiticephalus <small>Amin, Ha and Heckmann, 2008</small>
- Plagiorhynchus gallinagi <small>Schachtachtinskaja, 1953)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus genitopapillatus <small>Lundström, 1942)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus golvani <small>Schmidt and Kuntz, 1966</small>
- Plagiorhynchus gracilis <small>Petrochenko, 1958)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus kuntzi <small>Gupta and Fatma, 1988</small>
- Plagiorhynchus limnobaeni <small>Tubangui, 1933)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus longirostris <small>Travassos, 1926)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus luehei <small>Travassos, 1916)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus malayensis <small>Tubangui, 1935)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus megareceptaclis <small>Amin, Ha and Heckmann, 2008</small>
- Plagiorhynchus nicobarensis <small>Soota and Kansal, 1970)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus ogatai <small>Fukui and Morisita, 1936)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus pittarum <small>Tubangui, 1935)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus reticulatus <small>Westrumb, 1821)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus rheae <small>de Marval, 1902)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus rossicus <small>Kostylew, 1915)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus russelli <small>Tadros, 1970</small>
- Plagiorhynchus schmidti <small>Golvan, 1994)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus scolopacidis <small>Kostylew, 1915)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus transversus <small>Rudolphi, 1819)</small>
- Plagiorhynchus varispinus <small>Wang, 1966)</small>
Porrorchinae <small>Golvan, 1956</small>
Lueheia
Lueheia <small>Travassos, 1919</small> contains several species:
L. inscripta was found infesting the Austral thrush (Turdus falcklandii) in central Chile. It has also been found in the Puerto Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus.
Oligoterorhynchus
Oligoterorhynchus <small>Monticelli, 1914</small> contains one species: Oligoterorhynchus campylurus <small>(Nitzsch, 1857)</small>
Owilfordia
Owilfordia <small>Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967</small> contains three species.
Porrorchis
Porrorchis <small>Fukui, 1929</small> contains many species.
- Porrorchis aruensis <small>Smales, 2010</small>
- Porrorchis bazae <small>(Southwell and Macfie, 1925)</small>
- Porrorchis brevicanthus <small>(Das, 1949)</small>
- Porrorchis centropi <small>(Porta, 1910)</small>
- Porrorchis centropusi <small>(Tubangui, 1933)</small>
- Porrorchis chauhani <small>Gupta and Fatma, 1986</small>
- Porrorchis crocidurai <small>Gupta and Fatma, 1986</small>
- Porrorchis elongatus <small>Fukui, 1929</small>
- Porrorchis heckmanni <small>Bilqees, Khan, Khatoon and Khatoon, 2007</small>
- Porrorchis herpistis <small>Bhattacharya, 2007</small>
- Porrorchis houdemeri <small>(Joyeux and Baer, 1935)</small>
- Porrorchis hydromuris <small>(Edmonds, 1957)</small>
- Porrorchis hylae <small>(Johnston, 1914)</small>
- Porrorchis indicus <small>(Das, 1957)</small>
- Porrorchis jonesae <small>Muti-ur-Rahman, Khan, Khatoon and Bilqees, 2010</small>
- Porrorchis keralensis <small>George and Nadakal, 1984</small>
- Porrorchis kinsellai <small>Lisitsyna, Tkach and Bush, 2012</small>
- Porrorchis leibyi <small>Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967</small>
- Porrorchis maxvachoni <small>(Golvan and Brygoo, 1965)</small>
- Porrorchis nickoli <small>Salgado-Maldonado and Cruz-Reyes, 2002</small>
- Porrorchis oti <small>Yamaguti, 1939</small>
- Porrorchis rotundatus <small>(von Linstow, 1897)</small>
- Porrorchis tyto <small>Amin, Ha and Heckmann, 2008</small>
Pseudogordiorhynchus
<small>Golvan, 1957</small>
Pseudolueheia
<small>Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967</small>
Sphaerechinorhynchinae <small>Golvan, 1956</small>
Sphaerechinorhynchus
<small>Johnston, 1929</small>
S. macropisthospinus has been found in the intestine of the tiger (Panthera tigris) and a water monitor (Varanus salvator) in Vietnam.
Hosts
Plagiorhynchidae species parasitize a variety of hosts.
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