Tapeworm Species Details

Scalithrium rankini (Baer, 1948) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003
Rhinebothriidea: Rhinebothriidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 13576
Order Rhinebothriidea
Family Rhinebothriidae
Subfamily
Genus Scalithrium
Species rankini
Authority (Baer, 1948) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003
Taxonomic Status Incertae sedis
Valid Name
Synonyms Echeneibothrium rankini (Baer, 1948) Young, 1956; Rhinbothrium rankini Baer, 1948
Genus Record No
Type Species No
Verified No
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Citation(s)

Baer, J. G. 1948. Contributions a l’étude des cestodes des sélaciens. I-IV. Bulletin de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 71: 63-122.

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Ball, D., L. Neifar, and L. Euzet. 2003. Proposition de Scalithrium n. gen. (Cestoda, Tetraphyllidea) avec comme espèce-type Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) n. comb. parasite de Dasyatis pastinaca (Elasmobranchii, Dasyatidae). Parasite 10: 31-37.

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Redescription

Williams, H. H. 1958. Some Tetraphyllidea (Cestoda) from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 65: 867-878.

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Scientific Name Notes Baer appears to have been inconsistent with the numbering of this species; in the tex t and in the figure captions he referrs to the segment as figure 36 but we believe that the segment of R. rankini ishould be figure 37; Williams, 1958 "redescribed" and re-drew this species. see Volin et al., 2024 for taxonomic status details

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
11/04/2015 Created F. Marques
11/04/2015ModifiedF. Marques
01/15/2016ModifiedJ. Caira
05/04/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
08/20/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
09/21/2022ModifiedV. Bueno
08/05/2024ModifiedV. Bueno

Type Host

Host Class
Host Order Myliobatiformes
Host Family Dasyatidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Dasyatis
Species centrura [sic]
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Dasyatis
Species centroura
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host spiral intestine
Host Notes

Type Locality

Country U.S.A.
Body of Water
Island(s)
City/Region Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Coordinates
DD Latitude
DD Longitude
Additional Localities
Locality Notes

Specimens

Type Material
Total Number of Type Specimens 1
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.