Trypanorhyncha

Taxobox
name = Cestoda


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Platyhelminthes
classis = Cestoda
ordo = Trypanorhyncha
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = Subclass Acystidea
Paranybeliniidae
Tentaculariidae
Hepatoxylidae
Sphyriocephalidae
Subclass Cystidea
Dasyrhynchidae
Mustelicolidae
Lacistorhynchidae
Pterobothriidae
Gymnorhynchidae
Otobothriidae
Rhinoptericolidae
Tetrarhynchobothriidae
Gilquiniidae
Eutetrarhynchidae
Hornelliellidae
Pseudogrillotiidae

"Trypanorhyncha" is an order of cestode, a type of Flatworm.

Some species infect gamefish, such as sciaenids, during the parasitic worm's plerocercoid stage, and are commonly called spaghetti worm because of their appearance, approximating cooked spaghetti. Such species include "Poecilancistrium caryophyllum" and "Pseudogrillotia pleistacantha".