Abstract
All nutrients enter acanthocephalans through the body surface—these parasites have no gut. Materials are presumed to pass to and from the host through the pores which perforate the surface of these animals1–4.
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HAMMOND, R. Observations on the Body Surface of some Acanthocephalans. Nature 218, 872–873 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218872a0
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