Abstract
The large, spineheaded worm, Gigantorhynchus echinodiscus Diesing, one of the Acanthocephala, seems to be quite common in Brazil but apparently is little known elsewhere. Travassos (I) has reported specimens of it having been taken from anteaters in that country, representing three genera: Tamandua tetradactyla (L.), Myrmecophaga jubata (L.) and Cyclopes didactylus (L.). Strong, Shattuck, Bequaert and Wheeler (2) while in Brazil as members of the Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon also found this species in the duodenum and ileum of a Tamandua tetradactyla. Recently this parasite was encountered in Panama and a remarkable feature was noted in connection with
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