Isthomosacanthidae Explained

Isthomosacanthidae is a family of parasitic spiny-headed (or thorny-headed) worms.^[1]

Species

Isthomosacanthidae contains the following genera and species:

Golvanorhynchus

See main article: Golvanorhynchus. Golvanorhynchus Noronha, Fabio & Pinto, 1978 contains one species.

• Golvanorhynchus golvani Noronha, Fabio & Magalhaes, 1978

G. golvani was found parasitizing the Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias).^[2]

Gorgorhynchoides

See main article: Gorgorhynchoides. Gorgorhynchoides Cable and Linderoth, 1963 contains many species.

• Gorgorhynchoides bullocki Cable and Mafarachisi, 1970
• Gorgorhynchoides cablei (Gupta and Fatma, 1987)
• Gorgorhynchoides cribbi Smales, 2014
• Gorgorhynchoides elongatus Cable and Linderoth, 1963
• Gorgorhynchoides epinepheli Wang, 1986
• Gorgorhynchoides gnathanodontos Smales, 2014
• Gorgorhynchoides golvani (Chandra, Hanumantha-Rao and Shyamasundari, 1984)^[3]

Found in Australia and has 14 to 16 rows of 3 large, 7 spiniform hooks on their proboscis.^[3]

• Gorgorhynchoides indicus Bhattacharya and Banerjee, 2003
• Gorgorhynchoides lintoni Cable and Mafarachisi, 1970
• Gorgorhynchoides orientalis (Wang, 1966)
• Gorgorhynchoides queenslandensis Smales, 2014
• Gorgorhynchoides valiyathurae (Nadakal, John and Jacob, 1990)

Serrasentis

See main article: Serrasentis. Serrasentis Van Cleave, 1923 contains many species

• Serrasentis engraulisi Gupta & Gupta, 1980
• Serrasentis fotedari Gupta & Fatma, 1980
• Serrasentis gibsoni^[4]
• Serrasentis golvani Gupta & Kumar, 1987
• Serrasentis lamelliger (Diesing, 1854)
• Serrasentis manazo Bilqees & Khan, 2005
• Serrasentis mujibi Bilqees, 1972
• Serrasentis nadakali George & Nadakal, 1978
• Serrasentis niger Kahatoon and Bilqees, 2007
• Serrasentis psenesi Gupta & Gupta, 1980
• Serrasentis sagittifer (Linton, 1889)
• Serrasentis sauridae Surekha and Vijayalakshmi, 2006
• Serrasentis sciaenus Bilqees, 1972
• Serrasentis sidaroszakaio Tadros, Iskandar & Wassef, 1979

Hosts

Isthomosacanthidae species parasitize fish hosts.

Notes and References

1. Huston, D. C., Cribb, T. H., & Smales, L. R. (2020). Molecular characterisation of acanthocephalans from Australian marine teleosts: proposal of a new family, synonymy of another and transfer of taxa between orders. Systematic Parasitology, 1-23.
2. Pichelin, S. & Cribb, T. (2001). The status of the Diplosentidae (Acanthocephala: Palaeacanthocephala) and a new family of acanthocephalans from Australian wrasses (Pisces: Labridae). Folia Parasitologica, 48(4), 289–303.
3. Smales, L. R. (2022). A review of the Arhythmacanthidae (Acanthocephala) in Australia with the descriptions of a new genus and 6 new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 147(1), 69–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2022.2141867
4. Martínez-Aquino, A., García-Teh, J. G., Ceccarelli, F. S., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., & Vidal-Martínez, V. M. (2023). Integrative taxonomy of Serrasentis gibsoni n. sp.(Acanthocephala: Isthmosacanthidae) from flatfishes in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Helminthology, 97, e96.