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Othinoscolex Woodland, 1933
Onchoproteocephalidea I: Monticelliidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2625
Order Onchoproteocephalidea I
Family Monticelliidae
Subfamily
Genus Othinoscolex
Species
Authority Woodland, 1933
Taxonomic Status
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Citation(s)

Woodland, W. N. F. 1933. On a new subfamily of proteocephalid cestodes-the Othinoscolecinae-from the Amazon siluroid fish Platystomatichthys sturio (Kner). Parasitology 25: 491-500 +Plate X.

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Scientific Name Notes type species: Othinoscolex lenha Woodland, 1933

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
03/18/2003 Created Scholz, Kuchta, Healy, Caira
04/14/2011Modified
05/03/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau

Type Host

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Type Host
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Genus Platystomatichthys
Species sturio
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Type Locality

Country Brazil
Body of Water
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City/Region Amazon
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Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.