Acanthocephalus anguillae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Acanthocephala |
Class: | Palaeacanthocephala |
Order: | Echinorhynchida |
Family: | Echinorhynchidae |
Genus: | Acanthocephalus |
Species: | A. anguillae
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Binomial name | |
Acanthocephalus anguillae (Mueller, 1780)[1]
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Acanthocephalus anguillae is a species of parasitic worm in the phylum Acanthocephala.[2] An intestinal parasite, it is found both in the Baltic Sea and along the coast of California, where it is often found in the fore- and mid-gut of the Brown and Rainbow trouts.[3][4][5]