Acanthocephala (Greek ἄκανθος, akanthos, thorn + κεφαλή, kephale, heid) is a phylum o parasitic wirms kent as acanthocephalans, thorny-heidit wirms, or spiny-heidit wirms an aw, chairacterised bi the presence o an eversible proboscis, airmed wi spines, that it uises to pierce an hauld the gut waw o its host.

Acanthocephala
Corynosoma wegeneri
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Clade: Gnathifera
Phylum: Acanthocephala
Koelreuter, 1771[1][2]
Clesses

References

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  1. Crompton 1985, p. 27
  2. Koelreuter, I. T. (1770). "Descriptio cyprini rutili, quem halawel russi vocant, historico-anatomica". Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. 15: 494–503.