Tapeworm Species Details

Postgangesia Akhmerov, 1969
Onchoproteocephalidea I: Proteocephalidae: Gangesiinae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2409
Order Onchoproteocephalidea I
Family Proteocephalidae
Subfamily Gangesiinae
Genus Postgangesia
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Authority Akhmerov, 1969
Taxonomic Status Valid
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Verified By T. Scholz
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Akhmerov, A. Kh . 1969. New cestode Postgangesia orientale g. et sp. n. belonging to the new subfamily Postgangesiinae (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from silurid fishes of the River Amur [In Russian]. Trudy Gel’mintologicheskoi Laboratorii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 20: 3-7.

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de Chambrier, A. , S. N. H. Al-Kallak, & J. Mariaux. 2003. A new tapeworm, Postgangesia inarmata n. sp. (Eucestoda: Proteocephalidea: Gangesiinae), parasitic in Silurus glanis (Siluriformes) from Iraq and some comments on the Gangesiinae Mola, 1929. Systematic Parasitology 55: 199-209.

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Scientific Name Notes -valid -type species: Postgangesia orientale Akhmerov, 1969

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
03/13/2004 Created Caira , Scholz
04/14/2011Modified
04/25/2020ModifiedT. Scholz
07/20/2020ModifiedB. Barbeau
12/03/2021ModifiedB. Barbeau

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