Tapeworm Species Details

Discobothrium van Beneden, 1871
Rhinebothriidea: Echeneibothriidae
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Species ID 1909
Order Rhinebothriidea
Family Echeneibothriidae
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Genus Discobothrium
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Authority van Beneden, 1871
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Echeneibothrium van Beneden, 1850
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van Beneden, P.-J. 1871. Les poissons des côtes de Belgique, leurs parasites et leurs commensaux. Mémoires de l‘Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 38: 1-100.

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Scientific Name Notes Euzet (1994) considers this genus to be a synonym of Echeneibothrium.

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
09/10/2006 Created B. Barbeau, K. Jensen
02/13/2013Modified
01/05/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
01/10/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
01/22/2017ModifiedJ. Caira
05/10/2017ModifiedK. Jensen

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