Polymorphidae
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 Corynosoma wegeneri
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Filicollidae Petrochenko, 1956 |
The thorny-headed worm family Polymorphidae contains endoparasites which as adults feed mainly in fish and aquatic birds. When this taxon was erected by Meyer in 1931, a subfamily Polymorphinae was estabished in it. As the Polymorphidae as presently understood would then be monotypic, with no basal genera outside the Polymorphinae, the proposed subfamily is redundant for the time being and therefore most modern treatments simply omit it.
Polymorphus minutus is an economically significant parasite in goose and duck farming.
[edit] Genera
- Andracantha Schmidt, 1975
- Ardeirhynchus Dimitrova & Georgiev, 1994 - tentatively placed here
- Arhythmorhynchus Lühe, 1911
- Bolbosoma Porta, 1908
- Corynosoma Lühe, 1904
- Diplospinifer Fukui, 1929
- Filicollis Lühe, 1911
- Polymorphus Lühe, 1911
- Profilicollis Meyer, 1931
- Southwellina Witenberg, 1932 - might belong in Arhythmorhynchus
