MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Echinocephalus Molin, 1858

ERMS taxon details

Echinocephalus Molin, 1858

AphiaID

22883 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22883)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Echinocephalus uncinatus Molin, 1858

Parent

Gnathostomatinae (Railliet, 1895)

Original name

Echinocephalus Molin, 1858

Direct children (3)

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Environment

marine, brackish, fresh

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Echinocephalus Molin, 1858. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22883 on 2025-05-30

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Echinocephalus Molin, 1858. Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22883 on 2025-05-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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db_admin

2017-07-12 16:10:44Z

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Gibson, David

2017-07-13 13:54:22Z

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Gibson, David

2024-01-08 14:25:09Z

changed

Holovachov, Oleksandr

Licensing

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taxonomy source Müller, M. I.; Adriano, E. A.; Oliveira, M. S.; Corrêa, L. L. (2022). Integrative taxonomy suggests that South American freshwater nematodes Echinocephalus and their host stingrays co-originated in late Oligocene to early Miocene. Journal of Helminthology. 96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x22000554 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru. Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. Neotropical Helminthology. 10(2), jul-dic: 301-375. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Anderson, R. C.; Chabaud, A. G.; Willmott, S. (1974). CIH Keys to the nematode parasites of vertebrates. i-x. [details]

identification resource Soota, T. D. (1983). STUDIES ON NEMATODE PARASITES OF INDIAN VERTEBRATES. I. FISHES. RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION; OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 54. 352 pp.
note: Key to Indian species. [details]

identification resource Saad, C. B.; Suthar, J.; Theisen, S.; Palm, H. W.; Gargouri, L. (2022). Echinocephalus caniculus n. sp. (Nematoda: Gnathostomatidae Railliet, 1895) from the lesser spotted dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula (L.) (Elasmobranchii: Scyliorhinidae Gill, 1862) off Tunisia, with a key to species of the genus Echinocephalus. Systematic Parasitology. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-022-10027-7 [details]

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