Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Acanthocephala > Class Palaeacanthocephala > Order Echinorhynchida

Leptorhynchoididae Witenberg, 1932

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Illiosentidae*	Golvan, 1960	synonym

Children

Dentitruncus Sinzar, 1955
Illiosentis Van Cleave & Lincicome, 1939
Leptorhynchoides Kostylev, 1924
Pseudorhadinorhynchus Achmerov & Dombrovskaja-Achmerov, 1941
Tegorhynchus Van Cleave, 1921
Telosentis Van Cleave, 1923

Literature

basis of record	Salgado-Maldinado, G. (1976). ACANTOCÉF ALaS DE PECES. II. DESCRIPCIóN DE UN GÉNERO Y ESPECIE NUEVOS (ACANTHOCEPHALA: LEPTORHYNCHOIDIDAE) PARÁSITO DE CENTROPOMUS ROBALITO DE LA LAGUNA DE CAIMANERO, SINALOA, MÉXICO. AN. INST. BIOL. UNIV. NAL. AUTÓN. MÉXICO. 47, SER. ZOOLOGÍA (1): 1-6,.
source of synonymy	Amin, O. M. (2013). Classification of the Acanthocephala. Folia Parasitologica. 60 [4]: 273–305.
redescription	Kita, Y.; Hiruta, S. F.; Sasaki, M.; Kajihara, H. (2023). Systematic position of the genus Metacanthocephalus Yamaguti, 1959 (Palaeacanthocephala: Echinorhynchida) inferred from molecular evidence, with a redescription of Metacanthocephalus ovicephalus (Zhukov, 1960). Parasitology International. 94: 102731.
taxonomy source	Kita, Y.; Hiruta, S. F.; Sasaki, M.; Kajihara, H. (2023). Systematic position of the genus Metacanthocephalus Yamaguti, 1959 (Palaeacanthocephala: Echinorhynchida) inferred from molecular evidence, with a redescription of Metacanthocephalus ovicephalus (Zhukov, 1960). Parasitology International. 94: 102731.

Genbank

Citation

Gibson, D.; Wayland, M. (2025). World List of marine Acanthocephala. Leptorhynchoididae Witenberg, 1932. 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:1425034