Plagiorhynchus (Plagiorhynchus)
Creators: name: Dimitrova, Zlatka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Acanthocephala
Palaeacanthocephala
Polymorphida
Plagiorhynchidae
Plagiorhynchus

description: Key to the species of the <i>Plagiorhynchus</i> (<i>Plagiorhynchus</i>) 1 Trunk elongate-cylindrical, linear, up to 50-80.7 mm long......................... <b>2</b> – Trunk shorter (up to 30 mm), with different shape..................................... <b>3</b> 2 Trunk up to 50 mm long; proboscis with 18 longitudinal rows of 12-18 hooks per row (in Charadriiformes: Europe)................................................................................................ <b> <i>P. linearis</i> (Westrumb, 1821) Golvan, 1956</b> – Trunk up to 80.7 mm long; proboscis with 24 longitudinal rows of 18 hooks per row (in Charadriiformes: Europe)....... <b> <i>P. totani</i> (Porta, 1910) Golvan, 1956</b> 3 Female genital pore distinctly subterminal.................................................. <b>4</b> – Female genital pore terminal or slightly subterminal................................... <b>5</b> 4 Trunk smooth; proboscis with 15-16 longitudinal rows of 14-16 hooks per row; eggs 50-82 µm long (in Passeriformes: North America).............................................................................. <b> <i>P. paulus</i> Van Cleave &amp; Williams, 1951</b> – Trunk with pseudosegmentation; proboscis with 20-25 longitudinal rows of 16-17 hooks per row; eggs 118-130 µm long (in Charadriiformes: Ukraine).......................................................................... <b> <i>P. ponticus</i> Lisitsina, 1992</b> 5 Maximum length of proboscis up to 1.23 mm, with 16-23 longitudinal rows of 11-20 hooks per row; nerve ganglion in middle region of proboscis receptacle............................................................................................................ <b>6</b> – Proboscis longer (1.8-2.58 mm long), with 25-26 longitudinal rows of 30-38 hooks per row; nerve ganglion in posterior region of proboscis receptacle (in Passeriformes: Australia).......... <b> <i>P. menurae</i> (Johnston, 1912) Golvan, 1956</b> 6 Trunk ovoid to fusiform; maximum length of hooks 44-45 µm; last 1-5 hooks spiniform, with posteriorly directed roots................................................... <b>7</b> – Trunk fusiform to subcylindrical; maximum length of hooks 50-65 µm; last 2-6 hooks spiniform, sometimes with manubrium...................................... <b>8</b> 7 Trunk ovoid; proboscis 0.6-0.7 mm long, with 18-20 longitudinal rows of 11-14 hooks per row (in Charadriiformes: Europe)............................................................................................ <b> <i>P. crassicollis</i> (Villot, 1875) Lühe, 1911</b> – Trunk elongate-fusiform; proboscis 0.8-1.23 mm long, with 17-22 longitudinal rows of 14-19 hooks per row (in Charadriiformes: Europe)......................................................................................... <b> <i>P. odhneri</i> Lundström, 1942</b> 8 Trunk subcylindrical; proboscis with 16-20 longitudinal rows of 15-19 hooks per row; lemnisci 3.0- 5.1 mm long; eggs 90-120 µm long.......................... <b>9</b> – Trunk fusiform; proboscis with 18-23 longitudinal rows of 14-20 hooks per row; lemnisci 1.1 mm long; eggs 134-154 µm long (in Charadriiformes: New Zealand).............................................................. <b> <i>P. allisonae</i> Smales, 2002</b> 9 Females 8.0 mm long; lemnisci 5.1 mm long (in Charadriiformes: Russia).................................................................. <b> <i>P. lemnisalis</i> Belopol’skaya, 1958</b> – Females longer than 10 mm; lemnisci 3.0- 4.5 mm long............................ <b>10</b> 10 Males 9.6 mm long, females 11.5 mm long;15-19 hooks per row; last 3-4 hooks without root or with short anterior manubrium; genital pore on a caudal nodule (in Charadriiformes; Asia, Europe, Australia, Central America)....................... <b> <i>P. charadrii</i> (Yamaguti, 1939) Van Cleave &amp; Williams, 1951</b> – Males 9-13 mm long, females 17-23 mm long; 15-17 hooks per row; last 2-3 hooks with rectangular root with anterior and posterior manubrium; genital pore not on a caudal nodule (in Charadriiformes: Morocco, Europe)..................................................... <b> <i>P. charadriicola</i> (Dollfus, 1953) Golvan, 1956</b>
description: Published as part of <i>Dimitrova, Zlatka, 2009, Acanthocephalans of the nominotypical subgenus of Plagiorhynchus (Plagiorhynchidae) from charadriiform birds in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London, with a key to the species of the subgenus, pp. 75-90 in ZooKeys 6 (6)</i> on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.94, http://zenodo.org/record/576435
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