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

Isthmosacanthidae Smales, 2012

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Golvanacanthinae*	Paggi & Orecchia, 1972	synonym
*Serrasentinae*	Petrochenko, 1956	synonym

Children

Golvanacanthus Paggi & Orecchia, 1972
Serrasentis Van Cleave, 1923

Literature

basis of record	Smales, L. R. (2012). A new acanthocephalan family, the Isthmosacanthidae (Acanthocephala: Echinorhynchida), with the description of Isthmosacanthus fitzroyensis n. g., n. sp. from threadfin fishes (Polynemidae) of northern Australia. Systematic Parasitology. 82(2): 105-111.
additional source	Huston, D. C.; Cribb, T. H.; Smales, L. R. (2020). Molecular characterisation of acanthocephalans from Australian marine teleosts: proposal of a new family, synonymy of another and transfer of taxa between orders. Systematic Parasitology.
additional source	Huston, D. C.; Smales, L. R. (2021). Gorgorhynchoides pseudocarangis n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Isthmosacanthidae) from Pseudocaranx dentex (Carangidae) in southeast Queensland, Australia, with comments on the Isthmosacanthidae. Systematic Parasitology.

Genbank

Citation

Gibson, D.; Wayland, M. (2025). World List of marine Acanthocephala. Isthmosacanthidae Smales, 2012. 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:872648