Amphilinidae

Amphilinidae
Gigantolina elongata in a smooth-backed snake-necked turtle ( Chelodina longicollis )
Systematics
Trunk : Flatworms (Plathelminthes) Sub-stem : Neodermata Class : Tapeworms (Cestoda) Subclass : Monozoic tapeworms (Cestodaria) Order : Amphilinidea Family : Amphilinidae
Scientific name of the  order
Amphilinidea
Poche , 1922
Scientific name of the  family
Amphilinidae
Claus , 1879

The Amphilinidea are an order within the Monozoic tapeworms (Cestodaria). The eight known species all belong to the Amphilinidae family . They are distributed worldwide and live as parasites in various bony fish and turtles. Unlike the real tapeworms , these animals only have a set of genital organs and do not show any “segmentation” in proglottids .

A clear identification of the Amphilinidae are the typically shaped hooks, of which the animals have ten pieces.

species

• Amphilina
  • Amphilina foliacea
  • Amphilina japonica
• Gigantolina
  • Gigantolina elongata
  • Gigantolina magna
• Schizchoerus
  • Schizchoerus janickii
  • Schizchoerus africanus
  • Schizchoerus liguloideus
  • Schizchoerus paragonopora

literature

• Dubinina MN (1982): Parasitic worms of the class Amphilinida (Platyhelminthes) . "Nauka", Leningrad (in Russian).
• Gibson DI (1994): Order Amphilinidea Poche 1922 . In: Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates (LFKhalil, A.Jones and RA Bray, eds) CAB International. Wallingford, pp. 3-10.
• Rohde K (1994): The minor groups of parasitic Platyhelminthes. Advances in Parasitology 33, 145-234.

Web links

Commons : Amphilinidae  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Amphilinidae in the Tree of Life