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{{Short description|Order of thorny-headed worms}}
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|taxon=Polymorphida
|authority=Petrochenko, 1956
| image = C wegeneri.JPG
| image_caption = ''[[Corynosoma wegeneri]]''
}}

'''Polymorphida''' are an [[order (biology)|order]] of [[thorny-headed worm]]s ([[phylum]] Acanthocephala). The adults of these [[parasitic]] [[platyzoa]]ns feed mainly on [[fish]] and aquatic [[bird]]s.

This order contains 5 families:<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=197470 | title=ITIS - Report: Polymorphida }}</ref><ref name="Huston2020">Huston, D. C., Cribb, T. H., & Smales, L. R. (2020). Molecular characterisation of acanthocephalans from Australian marine teleosts: proposal of a new family, synonymy of another and transfer of taxa between orders. Systematic Parasitology, 1-23.</ref>

*[[Centrorhynchidae]] Van Cleave, 1916
*[[Isthomosacanthidae]] Smales, 2012
*[[Plagiorhynchidae]] Meyer, 1931
*[[Pyriprobosicidae]]
*[[Polymorphidae]] Meyer, 1931

==References==
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[[Category:Palaeacanthocephala]]

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