Mediorhynchus is a genus of small parasitic spiny-headed (or thorny-headed) worms.[2] Phylogenetic analysis has been conducted on two known species of Mediorhynchus and confirmed the placement along with the related genus Gigantorhynchus in the family Gigantorhynchida. The distinguishing features of this order among archiacanthocephalans is a divided proboscis (specifically, the presence of a "teloboscis" which is the posterior third of a proboscis). This genus contains fifty-eight species that are distributed globally. These worms exclusively parasitize birds by attaching themselves around the cloaca using their hook-covered proboscis. The bird hosts are of different orders.
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the female after copulation. There are 59 species in the genus Mediorhynchus. Mediorhynchus africanus Amin, Evans, Heckmann and El-Naggar, 2013 M. africanus...
of Mediorhynchus mattei. The parasite was described from specimens found in Senegal. Marchand, Bernard; Vassiliades, Georges (1982). "Mediorhynchus mattei...
three genera in Gigantorhynchida Gigantorhynchus, Intraproboscis, and Mediorhynchus. Phylogenetically, the family Gigantorhynchidae is sister to the family...
on one species of Gigantorhynchus places it with the related genus Mediorhynchus in the family Gigantorhynchidae. Six species in this genus are distributed...
Intraproboscis sanghae. This genus resembles species in the genus Mediorhynchus but is characterized by infesting a mammal instead of birds, and having...
Unikaryon matteii Toguebaye & Marchand, 1984 and the Acanthocephalan Mediorhynchus mattei Marchand & Vassiliadès, 1982. Both are parasitic species collected...
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