Plagiorhynchidae

Plagiorhynchidae is a family of parasitic Acanthocephalan worms.

Species
Genera in Plagiorhynchidae are divided into three subfamilies: Plagiorhynchinae, Porrorchinae, and Sphaerechinorhynchinae.

Plagiorhynchinae Meyer, 1931
Paralueheia Saxena & Gupta, 2008
 * Paralueheia guptai Saxena & Gupta, 2008

Species in Plagiorhynchus are divided into two subgenera: Plagiorhynchus and Prosthorhynchus.

Plagiorhynchus Lühe, 1911

 * Plagiorhynchus allisonae Smales, 2002
 * Plagiorhynchus aznari

P. aznari was found infesting a long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) from northern Mexico.


 * Plagiorhynchus charadrii Yamaguti, 1939)
 * Plagiorhynchus charadriicola Dollfus, 1953)
 * Plagiorhynchus crassicollis Villot, 1875)
 * Plagiorhynchus freitasi Vicente, 1977
 * Plagiorhynchus karachiensis Muti-ur-Rahman, Khan, Khatoon and Bilqees, 2008
 * Plagiorhynchus lemnisalis Belopolskaya, 1958
 * Plagiorhynchus linearis Westrumb, 1821)
 * Plagiorhynchus menurae Johnston, 1912)
 * Plagiorhynchus odhneri Lundström, 1942
 * Plagiorhynchus paulus Van Cleave and Williams, 1950
 * Plagiorhynchus pigmentatus de Marval, 1902)
 * Plagiorhynchus ponticus Lisitsyna, 1992
 * Plagiorhynchus rectus Linton, 1892)
 * Plagiorhynchus rosai Porta, 1910)
 * Plagiorhynchus rostratus de Marval, 1902)
 * Plagiorhynchus totani Porta, 1910)
 * Plagiorhynchus urichi Cameron, 1936)

Prosthorhynchus Kostylew, 1915

 * Plagiorhynchus angrensis Travassos, 1926)
 * Plagiorhynchus asturi Gupta and Lata, 1967)
 * Plagiorhynchus asymmetricus Belopolskaya, 1983)
 * Plagiorhynchus bullocki Schmidt and Kuntz, 1966
 * Plagiorhynchus cossyphicola Smales, 2010
 * Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus Goeze, 1782)

P. cylindraceus was found infesting the Austral thrush (Turdus falcklandii) in central Chile. Janice Moore discovered P. cylindraceus to be a parasite that infects an intermediate host, the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare, which alters its behavior and becomes more susceptible to P. cylindraceus' primary host, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).


 * Plagiorhynchus deysarkari Bhattacharya, 2002
 * Plagiorhynchus digiticephalus Amin, Ha and Heckmann, 2008
 * Plagiorhynchus gallinagi Schachtachtinskaja, 1953)
 * Plagiorhynchus genitopapillatus Lundström, 1942)
 * Plagiorhynchus golvani Schmidt and Kuntz, 1966
 * Plagiorhynchus gracilis Petrochenko, 1958)
 * Plagiorhynchus kuntzi Gupta and Fatma, 1988
 * Plagiorhynchus limnobaeni Tubangui, 1933)
 * Plagiorhynchus longirostris Travassos, 1926)
 * Plagiorhynchus luehei Travassos, 1916)
 * Plagiorhynchus malayensis Tubangui, 1935)
 * Plagiorhynchus megareceptaclis Amin, Ha and Heckmann, 2008
 * Plagiorhynchus nicobarensis Soota and Kansal, 1970)
 * Plagiorhynchus ogatai Fukui and Morisita, 1936)
 * Plagiorhynchus pittarum Tubangui, 1935)
 * Plagiorhynchus reticulatus Westrumb, 1821)
 * Plagiorhynchus rheae de Marval, 1902)
 * Plagiorhynchus rossicus Kostylew, 1915)
 * Plagiorhynchus russelli Tadros, 1970
 * Plagiorhynchus schmidti Golvan, 1994)
 * Plagiorhynchus scolopacidis Kostylew, 1915)
 * Plagiorhynchus transversus Rudolphi, 1819)
 * Plagiorhynchus varispinus Wang, 1966)

Porrorchinae Golvan, 1956

 * Lueheia Travassos, 1919
 * Lueheia adlueheia (Werby, 1938)
 * Lueheia cajabambensis Machado-Filho and Ibanez, 1967
 * Lueheia inscripta (Westrumb, 1821)

L. inscripta was found infesting the Austral thrush (Turdus falcklandii) in central Chile. It has also been found in the Puerto Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus.


 * Lueheia karachiensis Khan, Bilqees and Muti-ur-Rahman, 2005
 * Lueheia lueheia Travassos, 1919
 * Oligoterorhynchus Monticelli, 1914
 * Oligoterorhynchus campylurus (Nitzsch, 1857)
 * Owilfordia Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967
 * Owilfordia olseni Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967
 * Owilfordia schmidti Gupta and Fatma, 1988
 * Owilfordia teliger (Van Cleave, 1949)
 * Porrorchis Fukui, 1929
 * Porrorchis aruensis Smales, 2010
 * Porrorchis bazae (Southwell and Macfie, 1925)
 * Porrorchis brevicanthus (Das, 1949)
 * Porrorchis centropi (Porta, 1910)
 * Porrorchis centropusi (Tubangui, 1933)
 * Porrorchis chauhani Gupta and Fatma, 1986
 * Porrorchis crocidurai Gupta and Fatma, 1986
 * Porrorchis elongatus Fukui, 1929
 * Porrorchis heckmanni Bilqees, Khan, Khatoon and Khatoon, 2007
 * Porrorchis herpistis Bhattacharya, 2007
 * Porrorchis houdemeri (Joyeux and Baer, 1935)
 * Porrorchis hydromuris (Edmonds, 1957)
 * Porrorchis hylae (Johnston, 1914)
 * Porrorchis indicus (Das, 1957)
 * Porrorchis jonesae Muti-ur-Rahman, Khan, Khatoon and Bilqees, 2010
 * Porrorchis keralensis George and Nadakal, 1984
 * Porrorchis kinsellai Lisitsyna, Tkach and Bush, 2012
 * Porrorchis leibyi Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967
 * Porrorchis maxvachoni (Golvan and Brygoo, 1965)
 * Porrorchis nickoli Salgado-Maldonado and Cruz-Reyes, 2002
 * Porrorchis oti Yamaguti, 1939
 * Porrorchis rotundatus (von Linstow, 1897)
 * Porrorchis tyto Amin, Ha and Heckmann, 2008
 * Pseudogordiorhynchus Golvan, 1957
 * Pseudogordiorhynchus antonmeyeri Golvan, 1957
 * Pseudolueheia Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967
 * Pseudolueheia arunachalensis Bhattacharya, 2007
 * Pseudolueheia boreotis (Van Cleave and Williams, 1951)
 * Pseudolueheia korathai Gupta and Fatma, 1988
 * Pseudolueheia pittae Schmidt and Kuntz, 1967
 * Pseudolueheia tongsoni Salcedo and Celis, 2007

Sphaerechinorhynchinae Golvan, 1956
S. macropisthospinus has been found in the intestine of the tiger (Panthera tigris) and a water monitor (Varanus salvator) in Vietnam.
 * Sphaerechinorhynchus Johnston, 1929
 * Sphaerechinorhynchus macropisthospinus Amin, Wongsawad, Marayong, Saehoong, Suwattanacoupt and Say, 1998
 * Sphaerechinorhynchus maximesospinus Amin, Ha and Heckmann, 2008
 * Sphaerechinorhynchus ophiograndis Bolette, 1997
 * Sphaerechinorhynchus rotundocapitatus (Johnston, 1912)
 * Sphaerechinorhynchus serpenticola Schmidt and Kuntz, 1966

Hosts
Plagiorhynchidae species parasitize a variety of hosts.