Trypanorhyncha

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Trypanorhyncha
Nybelinia basimegacantha[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Subclass:	Eucestoda
Order:	Trypanorhyncha
Suborders and families
Acystidea Hepatoxylidae Paranybeliniidae Sphyriocephalidae Tentaculariidae Cystidea Dasyrhynchidae Eutetrarhynchidae Gilquiniidae Gymnorhynchidae Hornelliellidae Lacistorhynchidae Mustelicolidae Otobothriidae Pseudogrillotiidae Pterobothriidae Rhinoptericolidae Tetrarhynchobothriidae

Trypanorhyncha is an order of cestodes, a type of flatworm.

Some

Their scolex, or head region, has 2 to 4 bothria, or sucking grooves that cling onto the host. They have four retractable tentacles.^[2]

Gallery

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  Tentacle of Nybelinia basimegacantha, parasitic in the fish Neoniphon sammara
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  Plerocerci of

  Scomberomorus commerson
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  melanized plerocerci in the bodycavity of a grouper
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  Diodon hystrix

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