Tapeworm Species Details

Taenia retracta Linstow, 1903
Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2253
Order Cyclophyllidea
Family Taeniidae
Subfamily
Genus Taenia
Species retracta
Authority Linstow, 1903
Taxonomic Status Valid
Valid Name
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Genus Record No
Type Species No
Verified Yes
Verified By V. K. Haukisalmi
Citation(s)

von Linstow, O. 1903 (1904). Entozoa des Zoologischen Museums der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l’Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 8: 265-294.

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Redescription

Karpenko, S, V, and S. Konyaev. 2012. [Taenia retracta Linstow, 1803 [sic.] (Cestoda: Taeniidae) - a new species of multiplying metacestoda from Mongolian pika (Ochotona pallasi Gray, 1867)]. Rossiiskii Parazitologicheskii Zhurnal 2012: 11-15.

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Scientific Name Notes Status according to Loos-Frank (2000) and Karpenko & Konyaev (2012). A species inquirenda according to Verster (1969).

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
01/10/2006 Created Jones and Healy
04/25/2012Modified
05/01/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
05/04/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
02/06/2022ModifiedV. Haukisalmi

Type Host

Host Class Mammalia
Host Order Carnivora
Host Family Canidae
Type Host
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Genus Canis
Species eckloni
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Vulpes
Species ferrilata
Subspecies
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Site in Host
Host Notes Intermediate hosts ochotonids (Lagomorpha).

Type Locality

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Additional Localities
Locality Notes Verster (1969) and Abuladze (1964) list “Tibet?” as the type locality.

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Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.