Pseudoacanthocephalus

Pseudoacanthocephalus is a genus of parasitic worms belonging to the family Echinorhynchidae.[1]

Pseudoacanthocephalus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Acanthocephala
Class:	Palaeacanthocephala
Order:	Echinorhynchida
Family:	Echinorhynchidae
Genus:	Pseudoacanthocephalus Petrochenko, 1956

Anatomy of Acanthocephalus sp. (15–18) contrasted with Pseudoacanthocephalus sp. (19–22)

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

Species:[1]

• Pseudoacanthocephalus betsileo Golvan, Houin & Bygoo, 1969
• Pseudoacanthocephalus bigueti (Houin, Golvan & Bygoo, 1965)
• Pseudoacanthocephalus bufonicola (Kostylew, 1941)
• Pseudoacanthocephalus bufonis (Shipley, 1903)
• Pseudoacanthocephalus caspanensis (Fernández & Ibarra Vidal, 1989)
• Pseudoacanthocephalus caucasicus (Petrochenko, 1953)
• Pseudoacanthocephalus coniformis Amin, Heckmann & Ha, 2014
• Pseudoacanthocephalus elongatus (Van Cleave, 1937)
• Pseudoacanthocephalus goodmani Smales, Allain, Wilkinson & Harris, 2020
• Pseudoacanthocephalus lucidus Nakao, 2016
• Pseudoacanthocephalus lutzi (Hamann, 1891)
• Pseudoacanthocephalus nguyenthileae Amin, Ha, & Heckmann, 2008
• Pseudoacanthocephalus nickoli Tkach, Lisitsyna, Crossley, Binh & Bush, 2013
• Pseudoacanthocephalus paratiensis Bhattacharya, 2000
• Pseudoacanthocephalus perthensis Edmonds, 1971
• Pseudoacanthocephalus rauschi Gupta & Fatma, 1986
• Pseudoacanthocephalus reesei Bush, Duszynski & Nickol, 2009
• Pseudoacanthocephalus rhampholeontos Smales, 2005
• Pseudoacanthocephalus shillongensis Bhattacharya, 1999
• Pseudoacanthocephalus smalesi Tkach, Lisitsyna, Crossley, Binh & Bush, 2013
• Pseudoacanthocephalus toshimai Nakao, 2016
• Pseudoacanthocephalus xenopeltidis (Shipley, 1903)