Tapeworm Species Details

Bothridium pithonis de Blainville in Bremser, 1824
Diphyllobothriidea: Solenophoridae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 12217
Order Diphyllobothriidea
Family Solenophoridae
Subfamily
Genus Bothridium
Species pithonis
Authority de Blainville in Bremser, 1824
Taxonomic Status Valid
Valid Name
Synonyms Prodicoelia ditrema Leblond, 1836; Solenophorus megalocephalus Creplin, 1839; Solenophorus megacephalus Diesing, 1850; Solenophorus laticeps Duvernoy, 1833; Solenophorus grandis Creplin, 1839; Dibothrium boe-tigridis Rudolphi in Creplin, 1839; Dibothrium milliapharyngens Hatch, 1891; Bothridium arcuatum Baird, 1865
Genus Record No
Type Species Yes
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Citation(s)

Blainville, H. M. 1824. in Bremser, J. G. Traité zoologique et physiologique sur les vers intestinaux de l'homme / par M. Bremser. Traduit de l'allemand par M. Grundler. Rev. et augm. de notes par M. de Blainville. Avec un atlas composé de douze planches in-quarto. . C.L.F. Panckoucke, , 520 pp.

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Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
02/05/2013 Created B. Barbeau
08/20/2015ModifiedR. Kuchta
09/18/2015ModifiedR. Kuchta
02/02/2016ModifiedK. Mojica
09/29/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
10/12/2016ModifiedR. Kuchta
02/10/2026ModifiedR. Kuchta

Type Host

Host Class Reptilia
Host Order Squamata
Host Family Pythonidae
Type Host
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Genus phyton
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Type Host
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Genus Python
Species molurus
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Host Notes -according to Duvernoy’s testimony, the host was Phyton molurus (Joyeux and Baer 1927)

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Locality Notes -from a large species of a snake of the genus Python (as “pithon”), which was exhibited alive in Paris in 1823

Specimens

Type Material -not located
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Specimen Notes
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.