Acanthogyrus Explained

Acanthogyrus is a genus of parasitic worms belonging to the family Quadrigyridae.^[1] The species of this genus are found in Africa.

Taxonomy

Golvan in 1959 divided the genus Acanthogyrus into two subgenera: Acanthogyrus and Acanthosentis based on the number of proboscis hooks; there are 18 (3 circles of 6 hooks each) in Acanthosentis and 24 (3 circles of 8 hooks each) in Acanthogyrus.

Description

There are between 18 and 24 hooks on the proboscis.

Species

There are many species in the genus Acanthogyrus.

Acanthogyrus (Acanthogyrus) Thapar, 1927

• Acanthogyrus acanthogyrus Thapar, 1927

Found in the intestine of a rohu (Labeo rohita) in Lucknow, and from the intestines of a catla (Catla catla) from Kolkata, both in India.

• Acanthogyrus tripathi Rai, 1967

Acanthogyrus (Acanthosentis) Verma and Datta, 1929

• Acanthogyrus acanthuri (Cable and Quick, 1954)
• Acanthogyrus adriaticus Amin, 2005
• Acanthogyrus alternatspinus Amin, 2005
• Acanthogyrus anguillae (Wang, 1981)
• Acanthogyrus antespinus (Verma and Datta, 1929)
• Acanthogyrus arii (Bilqees, 1971)
• Acanthogyrus bacailai (Verma, 1973)
• Acanthogyrus barmeshoori Amin, Gholami, Akhlaghi and Heckmann, 2013

A. barmeshoori was found infesting the Farsi toothcarp (Aphanius farsicus) in Maharloo Lake, Fars Province, Iran.^[2]

• Acanthogyrus betwai (Tripathi, 1956)
• Acanthogyrus bilaspurensis (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1987)
• Acanthogyrus cameroni (Gupta and Kajaji, 1969)
• Acanthogyrus cheni Amin, 2005
• Acanthogyrus dattai (Podder, 1938)
• Acanthogyrus giuris (Soota and Sen, 1956)
• Acanthogyrus gobindi (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1987)
• Acanthogyrus golvani (Gupta and Jain, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus heterospinus (Khan and Bilqees, 1990)
• Acanthogyrus holospinus (Sen, 1937)
• Acanthogyrus indicus (Tripathi, 1959)
• Acanthogyrus intermedius (Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941)
• Acanthogyrus lizae (Wang, 1986)
• Acanthogyrus malawiensis Amin and Hendrix, 1999
• Acanthogyrus maroccanus (Dollfus, 1951)
• Acanthogyrus multispinus Wang, 1966
• Acanthogyrus nigeriensis Dollfus and Golvan, 1956
• Acanthogyrus papilo Troncy and Vassiliades, 1974
• Acanthogyrus parareceptaclis Amin, 2005
• Acanthogyrus partispinus (Furtado, 1963)
• Acanthogyrus paucispinus Wang, 1966
• Acanthogyrus periophthalmi (Wang, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus phillipi (Mashego, 1988)
• Acanthogyrus putitorae (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1988)
• Acanthogyrus scomberomori (Wang, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus seenghalae (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1988)
• Acanthogyrus shashiensis (Tso, Chen, and Chien, 1974)
• Acanthogyrus shuklai (Agrawal and Singh, 1982)
• Acanthogyrus siamensis (Farooqi and Sirikanchana, 1987)
• Acanthogyrus similis (Wang, 1980)
• Acanthogyrus sircari (Podder, 1941)
• Acanthogyrus thapari (Parasad, Sahay and Shambhunath, 1969)
• Acanthogyrus tilapiae (Baylis, 1948) ^[3]
• Acanthogyrus vancleavei (Gupta and Fatma, 1986)
• Acanthogyrus vittatusi (Verma, 1973)

Hosts

Acanthogyrus parasitizes fish.

Distribution

The species of this genus are found in Africa.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Acanthogyrus Thapar, 1927 . www.gbif.org . 6 April 2021 . en.
2. Tavakol . Sareh . Amin . Omar M. . Luus-Powell . Wilmien J. . Halajian . Ali . The acanthocephalan fauna of Iran, a check list . Zootaxa . 22 October 2015 . 4033 . 2 . 237 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.2.3. 26624401 .
3. Louizi . Halima . Hill-Spanik . Kristina M. . Qninba . Abdeljebbar . Connors . Vincent A. . Belafhaili . Amine . Agnèse . Jean-Francois . Pariselle . Antoine . de Buron . Isaure . Parasites of Moroccan desert Coptodon guineensis (Pisces, Cichlidae): transition and resilience in a simplified hypersaline ecosystem . Parasite. 29 . 2022 . 10.1051/parasite/2022064 . 64. free .