Tapeworm Species Details

Ligula mansoni Cobbold, 1883
Diphyllobothriidea: Diphyllobothriidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 12346
Order Diphyllobothriidea
Family Diphyllobothriidae
Subfamily
Genus Ligula
Species mansoni
Authority Cobbold, 1883
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Spirometra mansoni (Cobbold, 1883) Faust, Campbell & Kellogg, 1929
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Citation(s)

Cobbold, T. S. 1883. Description of Ligula Mansoni, a new human cestode. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 17(98): 78-83.

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Redescription
Scientific Name Notes - the name Ligula mansoni noted by the editor one year earlier in an addendum to Manson's report (Lancet ii: 617, 1882)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
02/07/2013 Created B. Barbeau
12/03/2015ModifiedR. Kuchta
10/10/2016ModifiedR. Kuchta
08/09/2018ModifiedR. Kuchta
11/30/2020ModifiedR. Kuchta

Type Host

Host Class Mammalia
Host Order Primates
Host Family Hominidae
Type Host
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Genus man
Species
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Type Host
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Genus Homo
Species sapiens
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host subperitoneal fascia, about the iliac fossae and behind the kidneys. A single parasite was found lying free in the right pleural
Host Notes -colleccted by P. Manson on the Sept. 21, 1881

Type Locality

Country China
Body of Water
Island(s)
City/Region Amoy
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Additional Localities
Locality Notes -now Xiamen

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Specimen Notes
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.