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Ophiotaenia grandis La Rue, 1911
Onchoproteocephalidea I: Monticelliidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2615
Order Onchoproteocephalidea I
Family Monticelliidae
Subfamily
Genus Ophiotaenia
Species grandis
Authority La Rue, 1911
Taxonomic Status Valid
Valid Name
Synonyms Crepidobothrium grandis (La Rue, 1911) Meggitt, 1927; Proteocephalus grandis (La Rue, 1911) Harwood, 1933; Ophiotaenia marenzelleri (Barrois, 1898) La Rue, 1911 in partim; Proteocephalus agkistrodontis Harwood, 1933; Ophiotaenia ancistrodontis Harwood, 1933 in Freze (1965); Ophiotaenia agkistrodontis (Harwood, 1933) Freze, 1965
Genus Record No
Type Species NO
Verified No
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Citation(s)

La Rue, G. R. 1911. A revision of the cestode family Proteocephalidae. Zoologischer Anzeiger 38: 473-482.

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Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
03/19/2003 Created Scholz, Kuchta, Healy, Caira
09/24/2006Modified
05/13/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
11/22/2021ModifiedB. Barbeau
04/04/2023ModifiedR. Kuchta

Type Host

Host Class Reptilia
Host Order Squamata
Host Family Viperidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Ancistrodon
Species piscivorus
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Agkistrodon
Species piscivorus
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host
Host Notes

Type Locality

Country USA
Body of Water
Island(s)
City/Region National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
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Specimens

Type Material -USNM 1323355 (syntypes)
Total Number of Type Specimens -17 slides with anterior parts with 4 scoleces and immature proglottids (= ‘true’ O. grandis) and numerous fragments of strobilae with wide pregravid and gravid proglottids (= O. marenzelleri)
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes -“material from bottle 14854 U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry”
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.