Cavisomidae
family of worms
Cavisomidae are a family of parasitic worms from the order Echinorhynchida.
Species
Cavisomidae contains ten genera:
Caballerorhynchus
Caballerorhynchus Salgado-Maldonado, 1977 contains one species:
Caballerorhynchus lamothei Salgado-Maldonado, 1977
Cavisoma
Cavisoma Van Cleave, 1931 contains one species:
Cavisoma magnum (Southwell, 1927)
C. magnum (Southwell, 1927) Van Cleave, 1931 was originally described as Oligoterorhynchus magnus by Southwell from the stomach and pyloric ceca of the sea bass, Serranus sp. (Serranidae) and from another fish, the spotted surgeonfish Ctenochaetus strigosus (Acanthuridae) off Negapatam, (Sri Lanka). Other hosts include milkfish Chanos chanos (Chanidae), Siganus lineatus (Siganidae), and Grey mullet, Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae). Localities include Sri Lanka, the Red Sea, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Iraq.
Echinorhynchoides
Echinorhynchoides Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941 contains one species:
Echinorhynchoides dogieli Achmerov and Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941
Femogibbosus
Femogibbosus Paruchin, 1973 contains only one species, Femogibbosus assi Paruchin, 1973.
Filisoma
Filisoma Van Cleave, 1928 contains many species:
Filisoma acanthocybii Wang, Wang & Wu, 1993
Filisoma atropi Wang and Wang, 1988
Filisoma bucerium Van Cleave, 1940
Filisoma fidum Van Cleve & Manter, 1947
Filisoma filiformis Weaver & Smales, 2013
Filisoma indicum Van Cleave, 1928
Filisoma inglisi Gupta & Naqvi, 1986
Filisoma longcementglandatus Amin & Nahhas, 1994
Filisoma micracanthi Harada, 1938
Filisoma oplegnathi Wang & Wang, 1988
Filisoma rizalinum Tubangui & Masiluñgan, 1946
Filisoma scatophagusi Datta & Soota, 1962
Megapriapus
Megapriapus Golvan, Gracia-Rodrigo and Diaz-Ungria, 1964 contains one species:
Megapriapus ungriai (Gracia-Rodrigo, 1960)
Neorhadinorhynchus
Neorhadinorhynchus Yamaguti, 1939 contains many species:
Neorhadinorhynchus aspinosus (Fukui and Morisita, 1937)
Neorhadinorhynchus atlanticus Gaevskaja & Nigmatulin, 1977
Neorhadinorhynchus atypicalis Amin & Ha, 2011
Neorhadinorhynchus macrospinosus Amin & Nahhas, 1994
Neorhadinorhynchus madagascariensis Golvan, 1969
Neorhadinorhynchus myctophumi Mordvilkova, 1988
Neorhadinorhynchus nudus (Harada, 1938)
Paracavisoma
Paracavisoma Kritscher, 1957 contains one species:
Paracavisoma impudica (Diesing, 1851)
Pseudocavisoma
Pseudocavisoma Golvan & Houin, 1964 contains one species
Pseudocavisoma chromitidis (Cable and Quick, 1954) Golvan & Houin, 1964
Rhadinorhynchoides
Rhadinorhynchoides Fukui and Morisita, 1937 contains one species
Rhadinorhynchoides miyagawai Fukui and Morisita, 1937
Hosts
Cavisomidae species parasitize fish.
“Cavisomidae” enters the record as family of worms. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cavisomidae, family and worms can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1808084. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1931, 1927 and 1941.
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