Acanthogyrus

Acanthogyrus is a genus of parasitic worms belonging to the family Quadrigyridae. 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.


 * 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)
 * Acanthogyrus vancleavei (Gupta and Fatma, 1986)
 * Acanthogyrus vittatusi (Verma, 1973)

Hosts
Acanthogyrus parasitizes fish.

Distribution
The species of this genus are found in Africa.