Cavisomidae

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

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

Species

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

Caballerorhynchus

Caballerorhynchus Salgado-Maldonado, 1977 contains one species:

Caballerorhynchus lamothei Salgado-Maldonado, 1977

Cavisoma

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

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

Echinorhynchoides dogieli Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941

Femogibbosus

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

Filisoma

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

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

Megapriapus ungriai (Gracia-Rodrigo, 1960)

Neorhadinorhynchus

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

Paracavisoma Kritscher, 1957 contains one species:

Paracavisoma impudica (Diesing, 1851)

Pseudocavisoma

Pseudocavisoma Golvan & Houin, 1964 contains one species

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

Rhadinorhynchoides

Rhadinorhynchoides Fukui and Morisita, 1937 contains one species

Rhadinorhynchoides miyagawai Fukui and Morisita, 1937

Hosts

Cavisomidae species parasitize fish.

Hosts for Cavisomidae species
The kole tang is a host of Cavisoma magnum

Notes

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

References

^ "ITIS - Report: Cavisomidae".
^ ^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.
^ Southwell T 1927. New species of Acanthocephala (Oligoterorhynchus magnus) from a marine fish. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 21, 165–169.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ ^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.

[2] A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the present genus.

[1] "ITIS - Report: Cavisomidae".

[AminHeckmann2018-3] 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.

[4] Southwell T 1927. New species of Acanthocephala (Oligoterorhynchus magnus) from a marine fish. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 21, 165–169.

[5] 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.

[FoataQuilichini2012-6] 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.

[Amin1994-7] 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.

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