Acanthocephalus dirus (Van Cleave, 1931)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Acanthocephala
- class
- Palaeacanthocephala
- order
- Echinorhynchida
- family
- Echinorhynchidae
- genus
- Acanthocephalus
- species
- Acanthocephalus dirus
Name
Bibliographic References
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- Amin, Omar M., 1998: Marine Flora and Fauna of the Eastern United States: Acanthocephala. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 135. ii + 28.
- Amin, Omar M., 2013: Classification of the Acanthocephala. Folia Parasitologica, vol. 60, no. 4. 273-305.
- Arai, H. P. (1989). Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada. Part III. Acanthocephala. L. Margolis and Z. Kabata (Eds). <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 107: 1-90.
- Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers). (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London. <em>http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/taxonomy-systematics/host-parasites/.</em>
- Golvan, Y. J., 1994: Nomenclature of the Acanthocephala. Research and Reviews in Parasitology, vol. 54, no. 3. 135-25.
- Golvan, Yves J., 1969: Systématique des Acanthocéphales (Acanthocephala Rudolphi, 1801) Premiere partie L'Ordre des Palaecanthocephala Meyer 1931 premiere fascicule la super-damille des Echinorhynchoidea (Cobbold, 1876) Golvan et Houin, 1963. Memoires du Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, ser. A, vol. 57. 291.
- Luna, M. D.; Olivera, L. A.; Barton, D. P.; García-Barrios, R. (2025). Adult Thorny-Headed Worm (Acanthocephala) Parasites of North American Herpetofauna: Checklist of Species and Identification Key to Families and Genera. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 111(3).
- Van Cleave, Harley J., and Lee H. Townsend, 1936: On the assignment of Echinorhynchus dirus to the genus Acanthocephalus. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, vol. 3, no. 2. 63.