Tapeworm Species Details

Ophiotaenia fragile (Essex, 1929) Wardle & McLeod, 1952
Onchoproteocephalidea I: Proteocephalidae
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Species ID 2395
Order Onchoproteocephalidea I
Family Proteocephalidae
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Genus Ophiotaenia
Species fragile
Authority (Essex, 1929) Wardle & McLeod, 1952
Taxonomic Status Homonym
Valid Name Proteocephalus fragile (Essex, 1929) Freze, 1965
Synonyms Crepidobothrium fragile Essex, 1929
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Citation(s)

Essex, H. E. 1929. Crepidobothrium fragile n. sp., a tapeworm of the channel catfish. Parasitology 21: 164-167 + Plate .

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Wardle, R. A. and J. A. McLeod. 1952. The Zoology of Tapeworms. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 780 pp.

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03/12/2004 Created Healy, Scholz
03/15/2010Modified
11/22/2021ModifiedB. Barbeau

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