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Acanthocephala

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Archiacanthocephala
Eoacanthocephala Van Cleve, 1936
Palaeacanthocephala Meyer, 1931

basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
taxonomy source	Reier, S.; Sattmann, H.; Schwaha, T.; Fuehrer, H.-P.; Haring, E. (2020). Unravelling the hidden biodiversity – the establishment of DNA barcodes of fish-parasitizing Acanthocephala Koehlreuther, 1771 in view of taxonomic misidentifications, intraspecific variability and possible cryptic species. Parasitology. 1-10.
biology source	Perrot-Minnot, M.-J.; Cozzarolo, C.-S.; Amin, O.; Barčák, D.; Bauer, A.; Filipović Marijić, V.; García-Varela, M.; Servando Hernández-Orts, J.; Yen Le, T.; Nachev, M.; Orosová, M.; Rigaud, T.; Šariri, S.; Wattier, R.; Reyda, F.; Sures, B. (2023). Hooking the scientific community on thorny-headed worms: interesting and exciting facts, knowledge gaps and perspectives for research directions on Acanthocephala. Parasite. 30: 23.

Gibson, D.; Wayland, M. (2025). World List of marine Acanthocephala. Acanthocephala. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:18814

Dr. David Gibson. Acanthocephala. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ac029666-9a7a-4946-baad-6f741b761215