Tapeworm Species Details

Bothriocephalus felis Creplin, 1825
Bothriocephalidea: Bothriocephalidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 12338
Order Bothriocephalidea
Family Bothriocephalidae
Subfamily
Genus Bothriocephalus
Species felis
Authority Creplin, 1825
Taxonomic Status Synonym
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Citation(s)

Creplin, F. C. H. 1825. Observationes de Entozois. Gryphiswaldiae : Sumtibus Mauritii Librarii, , 86 pp.

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Redescription
Scientific Name Notes -tentatively synonym of Spirometra erinaceieuropaei (Rudolphi, 1819) Faust, Campbell et Kellogg, 1929

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
02/07/2013 Created B. Barbeau
07/31/2015ModifiedR. Kuchta
09/15/2015ModifiedR. Kuchta
09/04/2018ModifiedR. Kuchta
08/14/2019ModifiedR. Kuchta
02/01/2024ModifiedR. Kuchta

Type Host

Host Class Mammalia
Host Order Carnivora
Host Family Felidae
Type Host
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Genus Cati
Species domestici
Subspecies
Type Host
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Genus Felis
Species catus
Subspecies
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Type Locality

Country Germany
Body of Water
Island(s)
City/Region Greifswald
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Additional Localities
Locality Notes -locality after Ariola (1896)

Specimens

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Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.