Cavisomidae are a family of parasitic worms from the order Echinorhynchida.

Cavisomidae
Cavisoma magnum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Acanthocephala
Class: Palaeacanthocephala
Order: Echinorhynchida
Family: Cavisomidae
Meyer, 1932

Species

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Cavisoma magnum, scanning electron microscopy
 
Cavisoma magnum, mainly scanning electron microscopy

Cavisomidae contains the following genera:[1][a]

Caballerorhynchus

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Caballerorhynchus Salgado-Maldonado, 1977 contains one species:

  • Caballerorhynchus lamothei Salgado-Maldonado, 1977

Cavisoma

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Cavisoma Van Cleave, 1931 contains one species: Cavisoma magnum (Southwell, 1927)[2] C. magnum (Southwell, 1927) Van Cleave, 1931 was originally described as Oligoterorhynchus magnus by Southwell[3] 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),[4][2] Siganus lineatus (Siganidae),[5] and Grey mullet, Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae).[2] Localities include Sri Lanka, the Red Sea, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Iraq.[2]

Echinorhynchoides

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Echinorhynchoides Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941 contains one species:

  • Echinorhynchoides dogieli Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941

Femogibbosus

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Femogibbosus Paruchin, 1973 contains only one species, Femogibbosus assi Paruchin, 1973.

Filisoma

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Filisoma Van Cleave, 1928 contains many species:[6]

  • Filisoma acanthocybii Wang, Wang & Wu, 1993
  • Filisoma atropi Wang and Wang, 1988
  • Filisoma bucerium Van Cleave, 1940
  • Filisoma fidum Van Cleve & Manter, 1947
  • Filisoma filiformis Weaver & Smales, 2013
  • Filisoma indicum Van Cleave, 1928
  • Filisoma inglisi Gupta & Naqvi, 1986
  • Filisoma longcementglandatus Amin & Nahhas, 1994[6]
  • Filisoma micracanthi Harada, 1938
  • Filisoma oplegnathi Wang & Wang, 1988
  • Filisoma rizalinum Tubangui & Masiluñgan, 1946
  • Filisoma scatophagusi Datta & Soota, 1962

Megapriapus

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Megapriapus Golvan, Gracia-Rodrigo and Diaz-Ungria, 1964 contains one species:

  • Megapriapus ungriai (Gracia-Rodrigo, 1960)

Neorhadinorhynchus

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Neorhadinorhynchus Yamaguti, 1939 contains many species:[6]

  • Neorhadinorhynchus aspinosus (Fukui and Morisita, 1937)
  • Neorhadinorhynchus atlanticus Gaevskaja & Nigmatulin, 1977
  • Neorhadinorhynchus atypicalis Amin & Ha, 2011
  • Neorhadinorhynchus macrospinosus Amin & Nahhas, 1994[6]
  • Neorhadinorhynchus madagascariensis Golvan, 1969
  • Neorhadinorhynchus myctophumi Mordvilkova, 1988
  • Neorhadinorhynchus nudus (Harada, 1938)

Paracavisoma

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Paracavisoma Kritscher, 1957 contains one species:

  • Paracavisoma impudica (Diesing, 1851)

Pseudocavisoma

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Pseudocavisoma Golvan & Houin, 1964 contains one species

  • Pseudocavisoma chromitidis (Cable and Quick, 1954) Golvan & Houin, 1964

Rhadinorhynchoides

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Rhadinorhynchoides Fukui and Morisita, 1937 contains one species

  • Rhadinorhynchoides miyagawai Fukui and Morisita, 1937

Hosts

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Cavisomidae species parasitize fish.

Notes

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  1. ^ A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the present genus.

References

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  1. ^ "ITIS - Report: Cavisomidae".
  2. ^ a b c d Amin, Omar M.; Heckmann, Richard A.; Bannai, Majid A. (2018). "Cavisoma magnum (Cavisomidae), a unique Pacific acanthocephalan redescribed from an unusual host, Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae), in the Persian Gulf, with notes on histopathology and metal analysis". Parasite. 25: 5. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018006. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 5806538. PMID 29424340.  
  3. ^ Southwell T 1927. New species of Acanthocephala (Oligoterorhynchus magnus) from a marine fish. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 21, 165–169.
  4. ^ Arthur JR, Regidor SE, Albert E. 1995. Redescription of Cavisoma magnum (Southwell, 1927) (Acanthocephala: Cavisomidae) from the milkfish, Chanos chanos, in the Philippines. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 62, 39–43.
  5. ^ Foata, J.; Quilichini, Y.; Justine, J.-L.; Bray, R.A.; Marchand, B. (2012). "Ultrastructural study of spermiogenesis and the spermatozoon of Cavisoma magnum (Southwell, 1927) (Acanthocephala, Palaeacanthocephala, Cavisomidae), from Siganus lineatus (Pisces, Teleostei, Siganidae) (Valenciennes, 1835) in New Caledonia". Micron. 43 (2–3): 141–149. doi:10.1016/j.micron.2011.10.022. ISSN 0968-4328. PMID 22100318.
  6. ^ a b c d Amin OM, Nahhas FM. Acanthocephala of marine fishes off Fiji Islands, with descriptions of Filisoma longcementglandatus n. sp., Neorhadinorhynchus macrospinosus n. sp. (Cavisomidae), and gravid females of Rhadinorhynchus johnstoni (Rhadinorhynchidae); and keys to species of the genera Filisoma and Neorhadinorhynchus. J Parasitol. 1994 Oct;80(5):768-74. PMID 7931911.