Telosentis exiguus
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| Telosentis exiguus | |
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| Telosentis exiguus from the Big-scale sand smelt from France | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Acanthocephala |
| Class: | Palaeacanthocephala |
| Order: | Echinorhynchida |
| Family: | Illiosentidae |
| Genus: | Telosentis |
| Species: | T. exiguus |
| Binomial name | |
| Telosentis exiguus (von Linstow, 1901) | |
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Telosentis exiguus is a widespread intestinal parasitic worm. Its hosts are marine and brackish water fish of the Mediterranean basin.
T. exiguus' tegument is covered with spines in anterior and posterior parts. Its cerebral ganglion located in central part of the proboscis sac, sometime moved to anterior region. Its proboscis is cylindrical or club-shaped, armed with 12 longitudinal rows of hooks of same type; the smaller hooks are in the posterior region of proboscis, larger is in its central part. The roots of the hooks have long forward-facing appendixes.[1]
Range
This species is found in the Mediterranean Sea[2] (near the coasts of France and Italy), in the Adriatic Sea (Italy, Montenegro), the Sea of Marmara,[3] the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov (near the coasts of Ukraine).
