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Mystery Solved? 160-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Thorny-Headed Worms
Juracanthocephalus (a, overall view; b, artistic reconstruction) and the comparison with extant Acanthocephala (c). Scale bars, 2.0 mm (a, b), 0.5 mm (c). Credit: YANG Dinghua The Jurassic fossil ...
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Fossil discovered in N.China sheds light on evolutionary origins of thorny-headed worms
The discovery fills a crucial gap in the evolutionary history of thorny-headed worms and provides solid evidence for resolving the mystery of the origin of acanthocephala, the institute reported ...
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Jurassic fossil reveals the origin of parasitic thorny-headed worms
A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ...
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Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World
Burdon-Jones (1998) stated that there are 94 described species in 16 genera in the world, with many more undescribed, and 12 species in seven genera in Australia. Cameron (2008) lists 108 species for ...
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Centrorhynchus spp. (Acanthocephala) in South America: new anuran record and checklist of vertebrate hosts
Twenty-nine specimens of A. catesbeiana (9 males, 10 females and 10 juveniles of undetermined gender) were collected from artificial ponds located in Ichthyology Laboratory of the Department of Animal ...
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Yamaguti, S. (1961) Systema Helminthum. Vol. III. The Nematodes of Vertebrates, Pt. II & I. Interscience Publishers, New York & London, 1261 p.
Thirteen species were nematodes, eleven digeneans, three cestodes, two crustaceans, and the Monogenea, Acanthocephala and Hirudinea were each represented by one species. Of the parasites recovered 16 ...
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Dezfuli, B.S., Giovinazzo, G., Lui, A. and Giari, L. (2008) Inflammatory Response to Dentitruncus truttae (Acanthocephala) in the Intestine of Brown Trout. Fish and Shellfish ...
ABSTRACT: Aquaculture is a rapidly growing global agriculture sector and the importance of fish health has become of upmost importance as production levels and stocking densities increase. Over the ...
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A new definitive host for Moniliformis cestodiformis (Acanthocephala: Moniliformidae): first report of a naturally infected European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
In May 2019, a female European hedgehog in poor physical condition, found in Monsanto forest park, within the municipality of Lisbon, was brought to the Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre of Lisbon ...
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About the Acanthocephal Corynosoma arctocephali (Acanthocephala, Polymorphidae) — the Parasite of Sea Leopard Hydrurga leptonyx from Pacific Sector of Antarctic
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Key to Acanthocephala Reported in Waterfowl... Resource Publication 173... Fish and Wildlife Service... United States Department of the Interior
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