The genus ''Archigetes''
Leuckart, 1878 is unique among all tapeworms in that its species can mature in invertebrate hosts (
Oligochaeta
Oligochaeta () is a subclass of soft-bodied animals in the phylum Annelida, which is made up of many types of aquatic and terrestrial worms, including all of the various earthworms. Specifically, oligochaetes comprise the terrestrial megadril ...
), in contrast to all other cestodes which have a vertebrate host.
All five species were described as plerocercoids in oligochaetes, but two of them were also described as adults in
cypriniform
Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid ( carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others). Cypriniformes is an "order-within-an-order", placed und ...
fishes.
Species
According to WoRMS, there are five valid species:
* ''
Archigetes brachyurus''
Mrázek, 1908
* ''
Archigetes cryptobothrius''
Wiśniewski, 1928
* ''
Archigetes iowensis''
Calentine, 1962
* ''
Archigetes limnodrili''
( Yamaguti, 1934) Kennedy, 1965[Kennedy CR. 1965. Taxonomic studies on ''Archigetes'' Leuckart, 1878 (Cestoda, Caryophyllidea). Parasitology, 55, 439–451.]
* ''
Archigetes sieboldi''
Leuckart, 1878
References
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Eucestoda
Parasitic animals of mammals
Cestoda genera