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Calycobothrium Stiles & Hassell, 1912

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Species ID	1907
Order	Lecanicephalidea
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Genus	Calycobothrium
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Authority	Stiles & Hassell, 1912
Taxonomic Status	Genus inquirendum
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Synonyms	Cyclobothrium Southwell, 1911
Genus Record	Yes
Type Species	Calycobothrium typicum (Southwell, 1911) Stiles & Hassell, 1912
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Citation(s)	Southwell, T. 1911. Description of nine new species of cestode parasites, including two new genera from marine fishes of Ceylon. Ceylon Marine Biological Report 1: 216-225. (437) Download PDF
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Scientific Name Notes	Stiles and Hassell (1912) created Calycobothrium as the replacement name for Cyclobothrium Southwell, 1911 which was occupied; the type species of Cyclobothrium became the type species of Calycobothrium (=C. typicum). Jensen (2005) considered the genus Calycobothrium to be a genus inquirendum et incertae sedis and listed this species as a species inquirenda (non-lecanicephalidean); given that the scolex illustrated in the original description superficially resembles the scolex of other lecanicephalideans such as Thysanobothrium or Polypocephalus, but that the proglottid anatomy (acc. to Southwell, 1911, 1925; Jensen, 2005) is inconsistent with that of any polypocephalidean, the type species and the genus is considered to be unrecognizable at this time.

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