Tapeworm Species Details

Taeniarhynchus Weinland, 1858
Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2258
Order Cyclophyllidea
Family Taeniidae
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Genus Taeniarhynchus
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Authority Weinland, 1858
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Taenia Linneaus, 1758
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Type Species Taeniarhynchus mediocanellata (Küchenmeister, 1852) Weinland, 1858
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Verified By V. K. Haukisalmi
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Weinland, D. F. 1858. Human cestoides. An essay on the tapeworms of man. Metcalf and Co., Cambridge, 93 pp.

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Redescription

Schmidt, G. D. 1986. Handbook of tapeworm identification. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 675 pp.

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Scientific Name Notes Synonymy according to Rausch (1994). Taenia mediocanellata is a junior synonym of T. saginata Goeze, 1782.

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
01/10/2006 Created Jones and Healy, V. K. Haukisalm
04/30/2012Modified
05/11/2016ModifiedN. Arisco
04/25/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
02/19/2022ModifiedV. Haukisalmi

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