Most of the acanthocephalans in the collection have not yet been processed and identified, and many more are yet to come to this page. On the left is a male of Leptorhynchoides thecatus, a common acanth in sunfishes and black basses. On the right is the proboscis of a species of Neoechinorhynchus, the most speciose genus in the phylum Acanthocephala.
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