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Ligula Bloch, 1782
Diphyllobothriidea: Diphyllobothriidae
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Species ID 12238
Order Diphyllobothriidea
Family Diphyllobothriidae
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Genus Ligula
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Authority Bloch, 1782
Taxonomic Status Valid
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Synonyms Braunia Leon, 1908; Digramma Cholodkovsky, 1914
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Type Species Ligula intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Gmelin, 1790
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Bloch, M. E. 1782. Abhandlung von der Erzeugung der Eingeweidewürmer und den Mitteln wider dieselben: Eine von der Königlich Dänischen Societät der Wissenschaften zu Copenhagen gekrönte Preisschrift. Siegismund Friedrich Hesse, Berlin, 54 pp.

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Gmelin, J. F. 1790. Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae. Tom. I. Pars VI. Classis VI. Vermes. Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig], 3021-3910 pp.

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Scientific Name Notes Ligula can be found on pg. 3042 in Gmelin 1790

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
02/05/2013 Created B. Barbeau
07/29/2015ModifiedR. Kuchta
09/26/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
08/22/2017ModifiedR. Kuchta

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