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Scientific name Author |
Distribution | Host(s) | Number of proboscis hooks | Female length (mm) Male length (mm) |
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G. echinodiscus (Diesing, 1851) |
Venezuela, Panama, Trinidad Island | Giant anteater, southern tamandua, silky anteater | 18 | 53.41–103.5 15.25–45.94 |
G. lopezneyrai Diaz-ungria, 1958 |
Venezuela | Southern tamandua | 12 | Unknown 17.131–59.5 |
G. lutzi Machado, 1941 |
Peru | Bare-tailed woolly opossum, common opossum | 12 | 0–0 0–0 |
G. ortizi Sarmiento, 1954 |
Panama, Peru, Colombia | Brown four-eyed opossum, White-bellied slender opossum | 12 | 0–0 0–0 |
G. pasteri Tadros, 1966 |
Zimbabwe | Baboon | 4 | 0–0 0–0 |
G. ungriai Antonio, 1958 |
Venezuela | Southern tamandua | 18 | 0–0 0–0 |
Hi! I'm working on the featured article Gigantorhynchus and the only record of the origins of this name is from a 150 year old German text that says: "Wie der Name besagt, sind es große Formen, die hierher gehören." I assumed the "giganto" refers to the large size, but I'm wondering if anyone could translate that for me so I can add the translated phrase to the article? Thank you! Danke! Mattximus ( talk) 16:55, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
Ok so I wrote this, does it match with your German translation? Danke!
The name Gigantorhynchus is derived from two Ancient Greek words: gígantas which Hamann used in 1892 as a descriptor when grouping the the larger varieties of these worms [a] and rhúnkhos, meaning snout, nose, or beak, which describes the characteristic proboscis in this genus of Acanthocephala.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattximus ( talk • contribs) 19:43, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
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