DR. MEYER gives an interesting historical account of the Acanthocephala from their discovery by Leeuwenhoek (1695) who found two species in the gut of the eel. Koelreuther (1771) and 0.
STEINAUER, M. L. NICKOL, B. B. and ORTÍ, G. 2007. Cryptic speciation and patterns of phenotypic variation of a highly variable acanthocephalan parasite. Molecular ...
The parasitic worms section includes terrestrial and marine Platyhelminthes (flatworms), parasitic Nematoda (roundworms), Nematophorpha (horsehair worms) and Acanthocephala. The collection has ...