Acanthogyrus is a genus of parasitic worms belonging to the family Quadrigyridae. The species of this genus are found in Africa.
Taxonomy Golvan in 1959 divided the genus Acanthogyrus into two subgenera: Acanthogyrus and Acanthosentis based on the number of proboscis hooks; there are 18 (3 circles of 6 hooks each) in Acanthosentis and 24 (3 circles of 8 hooks each) in Acanthogyrus.
Description There are between 18 and 24 hooks on the proboscis.
Species There are many species in the genus Acanthogyrus.
Acanthogyrus (Acanthogyrus) Thapar, 1927
Acanthogyrus acanthogyrus Thapar, 1927
Found in the intestine of a rohu (Labeo rohita) in Lucknow, and from the intestines of a catla (Catla catla) from Kolkata, both in India.
Acanthogyrus tripathi Rai, 1967
Acanthogyrus (Acanthosentis) Verma and Datta, 1929
Acanthogyrus acanthuri (Cable and Quick, 1954) Acanthogyrus adriaticus Amin, 2005 Acanthogyrus alternatspinus Amin, 2005 Acanthogyrus anguillae (Wang, 1981) Acanthogyrus antespinus (Verma and Datta, 1929) Acanthogyrus arii (Bilqees, 1971) Acanthogyrus bacailai (Verma, 1973) Acanthogyrus barmeshoori Amin, Gholami, Akhlaghi and Heckmann, 2013
A. barmeshoori was found infesting the Farsi toothcarp (Aphanius farsicus) in Maharloo Lake, Fars province, Iran.
Acanthogyrus betwai (Tripathi, 1956) Acanthogyrus bilaspurensis (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1987) Acanthogyrus cameroni (Gupta and Kajaji, 1969) Acanthogyrus cheni Amin, 2005 Acanthogyrus dattai (Podder, 1938) Acanthogyrus giuris (Soota and Sen, 1956) Acanthogyrus gobindi (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1987) Acanthogyrus golvani (Gupta and Jain, 1980) Acanthogyrus heterospinus (Khan and Bilqees, 1990) Acanthogyrus holospinus (Sen, 1937) Acanthogyrus indicus (Tripathi, 1959) Acanthogyrus intermedius (Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941) Acanthogyrus lizae (Wang, 1986) Acanthogyrus malawiensis Amin and Hendrix, 1999 Acanthogyrus maroccanus (Dollfus, 1951) Acanthogyrus multispinus Wang, 1966 Acanthogyrus nigeriensis Dollfus and Golvan, 1956 Acanthogyrus papilo Troncy and Vassiliades, 1974 Acanthogyrus parareceptaclis Amin, 2005 Acanthogyrus partispinus (Furtado, 1963) Acanthogyrus paucispinus Wang, 1966 Acanthogyrus periophthalmi (Wang, 1980) Acanthogyrus phillipi (Mashego, 1988) Acanthogyrus putitorae (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1988) Acanthogyrus scomberomori (Wang, 1980) Acanthogyrus seenghalae (Chowhan, Gupta and Khera, 1988) Acanthogyrus shashiensis (Tso, Chen, and Chien, 1974) Acanthogyrus shuklai (Agrawal and Singh, 1982) Acanthogyrus siamensis (Farooqi and Sirikanchana, 1987) Acanthogyrus similis (Wang, 1980) Acanthogyrus sircari (Podder, 1941) Acanthogyrus thapari (Parasad, Sahay and Shambhunath, 1969) Acanthogyrus tilapiae (Baylis, 1948) Acanthogyrus vancleavei (Gupta and Fatma, 1986) Acanthogyrus vittatusi (Verma, 1973)
Hosts Acanthogyrus parasitizes fish.
Distribution The species of this genus are found in Africa.
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