Family Illiosentidae

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**Illiosentidae** is a family of parasitic worms from the order Echinorhynchida.

## Species

**Illiosentidae** contains the following species:

***Brentisentis*** Leotta, Schmidt & Kuntz, 1982

* ***Brentisentis chongqingensis*** Wei, 1998

The species name *chongqingensis* was named after the location where the samples were collected: Chongqing, China.

* ***Brentisentis uncinus*** Leotta, Schmidt, Kuntz, 1982

*B. uncinus* was found infesting the small intestines of the Tank goby (*Glossogobius giuris*) and *Eleotris pisonis* near the mouth of Keelung River, Taiwan.

* ***Brentisentis yangtzensis*** Yu and Wu, 1989

***Dentitruncus*** Sinzar, 1955

* ***Dentitruncus truttae*** Sinzar, 1955

***Dollfusentis*** Golvan, 1969

* ***Dollfusentis bravoae*** Salgado-Maldonado, 1976
* ***Dollfusentis chandleri*** Golvan, 1969
* ***Dollfusentis ctenorhynchus*** (Cable & Linderoth, 1963) Golvan, 1969
* ***Dollfusentis heteracanthus*** (Cable and Linderoth, 1963)
* ***Dollfusentis longispinus*** (Cable & Linderoth, 1963) Golvan, 1969
* ***Dollfusentis salgadoi*** Monks, Aleman-Garcia & Pulido-Flores, 2008

***Goacanthus*** Gupta & Jain, 1980

* ***Goacanthus panajiensis*** Gupta and Jain, 1980

***Indorhynchus*** Golvan, 1969

* ***Indorhynchus indicus*** (Tripathi, 1959) Golvan, 1969
* ***Indorhynchus pseudobargi*** Wang and Wang, 1988

***Koronacantha*** Monks & Ponce de Leon, 1996

* ***Koronacantha mexicana*** Monks & Ponce de Leon, 1996
* ***Koronacantha pectinaria*** (Van Cleave, 1940) Monks & Pérez-Ponce de León, 1996

*Metarhadinorhynchus* Yamaguti, 1959

* *Metarhadinorhynchus cyprini* Yin, 1961
* *Metarhadinorhynchus echeneisi* Gupta & Sinha, 1991
* *Metarhadinorhynchus laterolabracis* Yamaguti, 1959

*M. laterolabracis* is the type species.

* *Metarhadinorhynchus thapari* Gupta & Gupta, 1975
* *Metarhadinorhynchus valiyathurae* Nadakal, John et Jacob, 1990

*Paradentitruncus* Moravec & Sey, 1989

* *Paradentitruncus longireceptaculis* Moravec & Sey, 1989

*Pseudorhadinorhynchus* Achmerow & Dombrowskaja-Achmerova, 1941

* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus cinereus* Gupta & Nagui, 1983

*P. cinereus* was found infesting *Stromateus cinereus* in Pakistan.

* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus cochinensis* Gupta & Nagui, 1983
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus deeghai* Saxena, 2003
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus dhari* Kumar, 1992
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus dussamicitatum* Gupta & Gupta, 1972
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus ernakulensis* Gupta & Gupta, 1972
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus guptai* Gupta & Sinha, 1993
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus leuciscus* (Krotov & Petrochenko, 1956)
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus longicollum* Gupta & Naqvi, 1986
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus machidai* Kumar, 1992
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus markewitschi* Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus mujibi* Gupta & Nagui, 1983

*P. mujibi* was found infesting *Stromateus sinensis* in Pakistan.

* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus nandai* Gupta and Sinha, 1993
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus orissai* Gupta & Fatma, 1985
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus pseudaspii* Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus samegaiensis* Nakajima & Egusa, 1975
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus srivastavai* Gupta & Fatma, 1985
* *Pseudorhadinorhynchus vietnamensis* Moravec and Sey, 1989

*Tegorhynchus* Van Cleve, 1921

* *Tegorhynchus africanus* (Golvan, 1955)
* *Tegorhynchus brevis* Van Cleave, 1921
* *Tegorhynchus cetratus* (Van Cleave, 1945)
* *Tegorhynchus edmondsi* (Golvan, 1960)
* *Tegorhynchus furcatus* (Van Cleave & Lincicome, 1939)
* *Tegorhynchus holospinus* Amin & Sey, 1996
* *Tegorhynchus multacanthus* (Mamaev, 1970) Amin & Sey, 1996

*Telosentis* Van Cleve, 1923

*Telosentis* is a genus of acanthocephalans. The representatives of the genus are distributed in tropical waters of Indian ocean, Pacific coast of Australia and Mediterranean. Consists of four species:

* *Telosentis australiensis* Edmonds, 1964
* *Telosentis exiguus* (von Linstow, 1901)

*T. exiguus* is a widespread intestinal parasitic worm. Its hosts are marine and brackish water fish of the Mediterranean basin. This species is found in the Mediterranean Sea (near the coasts of France and Italy), in the Adriatic Sea (Italy, Montenegro), the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov (near the coasts of Ukraine). *T. exiguus* is able to thrive in a variety hosts. It has been found as an intestinal parasite in anchovies, sand-smelts, shads, garfishes, eels, sticklebacks, pipe-fishes, grass gobies, some other gobies, blennies, and wrasses.

*T. exiguus'* tegument is covered with spines in anterior and posterior parts. Its cerebral ganglion located in central part of the proboscis sac, sometime moved to anterior region. Its proboscis is cylindrical or club-shaped, armed with 12 longitudal rows of hooks of same type; the smaller hooks are in the posterior region of proboscis, larger is in its central part. The roots of the hooks have long forward-facing appendixes.

In the Black Sea the intermediate hosts of this acanthocephalan is the amphipod *Apherusa bispinosa*, in the coelom of which the cystacanthes are located. Fish are infested by feeding on amphipods infected with larvae.

* ***Telosentis lutianusi*** Gupta & Gupta, 1990
* ***Telosentis mizellei*** Gupta & Fatma, 1988
* ***Telosentis molini*** Van Cleave, 1923

## Notes

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