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Genus of worms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gigantorhynchus is a genus of spiny-headed (or thorny-headed) worms from the family Gigantorhynchidae that parasitize marsupials, anteaters, and a possibly a baboon by attaching themselves to the intestines using their hook-covered proboscis. The intermediate host includes termites. This genus is characterized by a cylindrical proboscis with a crown of robust hooks at the apex followed by numerous small hooks on the rest of the proboscis, a long body with pseudo-segmentation, filiform lemnisci, and ellipsoid testes. Gigantorhynchus is considered a well-supported monophyletic group with the related Mediorhynchus genus in the Gigantorhynchidae family based on genetic analysis. There are six species in this genus distributed across Central and South America and possibly Zimbabwe.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Acanthocephala |
Class: | Archiacanthocephala |
Order: | Gigantorhynchida |
Family: | Gigantorhynchidae |
Genus: | Gigantorhynchus Hamann, 1892[1] |