Dendrorhynchus Explained

Dendrorhynchus is a gregarine genus with total 2 species. The genus was first described in 1920 by David Keilin from the alimentary canal of dolichopodid larvae Systenus.

Homonyms

Dendrorhynchus is a senior homonym for genera of nemerteans (replaced with Polydendrorhynchus) and pterosaurs (replaced with Dendrorhynchoides).

References

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Notes and References

1. Book: Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée . Masson . Encyclopédie des sciences médico-biologiques. Section--Parasitologie . 1965 . fr . 24 June 2019 . 709 . David Keilin, éminent biochimiste, membre de la Royal Society, qui découvrit en ... des Grégarines (Dendrorhynchus, Caulleryella, Allantocystis, Schizocystis, Lipotropha) ou des Ciliés (Lambornella)..
2. Keilin, D. . 1920 . On two new gregarines, Allantocystis dasyhelei n. g., n. sp., and Dendrorhynchus systeni n. g., n. sp, parasitic in the alimentary canal of the dipterous larvae, Dasyhelea obscura Winn. and Systenus sp. . Parasitology . 12 . 2 . 154–158 . 10.1017/s0031182000014104 .
3. Kajihara, H. . A. V. Chernyshev . S.-C. Sun . P. Sundberg . F. B. Crandall . Checklist of nemertean genera and species published between 1995 and 2007 . Species Diversity . 2008 . 13 . 4 . 245–274 . 10.12782/specdiv.13.245. free .
4. Ji, S.-A. . Q. Ji . K. Padian . 1999 . Biostratigraphy of new pterosaurs from China . Nature . 398 . 6728 . 573–574 . 10.1038/19221. free .
5. Clopton, R. E. (2002). Phylum Apicomplexa Levine, 1970: Order Eugregarinorida Léger, 1900. Pages 205-288. in: Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa, 2nd edition, J. J. Lee, G. Leedale, D. Patterson, and P. C. Bradbury, eds. Society of Protozoologists, Lawrence, Kansas
6. Nazeer Ahamed, S. . C. C. Narasimhamurti . 1979 . Two new septate gregarines, Dendrorhynchus keilini sp. n. and Ancyrophora ceriagrioni sp. n. from the midgut of the damsel fly, Ceriagrion coromandelianum (Fabr.) . Acta Protozoologica . 18 . 3 . 441–450.