Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Acanthocephala > Class Palaeacanthocephala > Order Echinorhynchida > Family Leptorhynchoididae

Illiosentis Van Cleave & Lincicome, 1939

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Illiosentis africanus Golvan, 1956
Illiosentis furcatus Van Cleave & Lincicome, 1939

Literature

original description	Van Cleave, H. J.; Lincicome, D. R. (1939). On a new genus and species of Rhadinorhynchidae (Acanthocephala). Parasitology. 31: 413-416.
basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Kita, Y.; Hiruta, S. F.; Sasaki, M.; Kajihara, H. (2023). Systematic position of the genus Metacanthocephalus Yamaguti, 1959 (Palaeacanthocephala: Echinorhynchida) inferred from molecular evidence, with a redescription of Metacanthocephalus ovicephalus (Zhukov, 1960). Parasitology International. 94: 102731.
additional source	Golvan, Y.J. (1994). Nomenclature of the Acanthocephala. Research and Reviews in Parasitology. 54(3): 135-205.
source of synonymy	Amin, O. M. (2013). Classification of the Acanthocephala. Folia Parasitologica. 60 [4]: 273–305.
redescription	Monks, S.; Pulido-Flores, G. (2002). REEVALUATION AND EMENDED DIAGNOSIS OF ILLIOSENTIS AND I. HETERACANTHUS (ACANTHOCEPHALA: ILLIOSENTIDAE). Journal of Parasitology. 88(2): 365-369.
taxonomy source	Amin, O. M.; Chaudhary, A.; Singh, H. S. (2023). Redescription of Illiosentis cetratus Van Cleave, 1945 (Acanthocephala: Illiosentidae) from Menticirrhus undulatus (Girard) in California, with notes on Illiosentis furcatus from Peru. Folia Parasitologica. 70.

Genbank

Citation

Gibson, D.; Wayland, M. (2025). World List of marine Acanthocephala. Illiosentis Van Cleave & Lincicome, 1939. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:20361