Family Plagiorhynchidae

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**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

* *Sphaerechinorhynchus* Johnston, 1929
	+ *Sphaerechinorhynchus macropisthospinus* Amin, Wongsawad, Marayong, Saehoong, Suwattanacoupt and Say, 1998

*S. macropisthospinus* has been found in the intestine of the tiger (*Panthera tigris*) and a water monitor (*Varanus salvator*) in Vietnam.

* + *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.

* Hosts for *Plagiorhynchidae* species
* The Long-billed curlew is a hosts of *Plagiorhynchus aznari*
* The Austral thrush is a hosts of *Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus* and *Lueheia inscripta*
* The Tiger is a hosts of *Sphaerechinorhynchus macropisthospinus*
* The Asian water monitor is a hosts of *Sphaerechinorhynchus macropisthospinus*

## Notes

1. **^** A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the present genus.