Tapeworm Species Details

Gangesia oligonchis Roitman & Freze, 1964
Onchoproteocephalidea I: Proteocephalidae: Gangesiinae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2350
Order Onchoproteocephalidea I
Family Proteocephalidae
Subfamily Gangesiinae
Genus Gangesia
Species oligonchis
Authority Roitman & Freze, 1964
Taxonomic Status Valid
Valid Name
Synonyms
Genus Record No
Type Species No
Verified Yes
Verified By T. Scholz
Citation(s)

Roitman, V. A. & V. I. Freze. 1964. [New species of the genus Gangesia (Cestoda, Proteocephalata) of fish of the Amur River Basin.]. Trudy Gel’mintologicheskoi Laboratorii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 14: 170-181.

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Ash, A., A. de Chambrier., T. Shimazu, A. Ermolenko, and T. Scholz. 2015. An annotated list of the species of Gangesia Woodland, 1924 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), parasites of catfishes in Asia, with new synonyms and a key to their identification. Systematic Parasitology 91(1): 13-33.

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Scientific Name Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
03/09/2004 Created Healy, Scholz
02/11/2010Modified
10/15/2015ModifiedN. Arisco
04/23/2020ModifiedT. Scholz
12/03/2021ModifiedB. Barbeau
06/16/2024ModifiedT. Scholz

Type Host

Host Class Actinopterygii
Host Order Siluriformes
Host Family Bagridae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Pseudobagrus
Species fulvidraco
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Tachysurus
Species fulvidraco
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host intestine
Host Notes

Type Locality

Country Russia
Body of Water Amur River (lower part)
Island(s)
City/Region Far East
Coordinates
DD Latitude
DD Longitude
Additional Localities Zea River (upper and lower parts)
Locality Notes -Type locality not indicated, Amur RIver listed first

Specimens

Type Material Specimens in the collection of the Helminthological Laboratory of the Academ y of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow)
Total Number of Type Specimens
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.