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Woodlandiella myzofera (Woodland, 1933) Freze, 1965
Onchoproteocephalidea I: Monticelliidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2646
Order Onchoproteocephalidea I
Family Monticelliidae
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Genus Woodlandiella
Species myzofera
Authority (Woodland, 1933) Freze, 1965
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Peltidocotyle lenha (Woodland, 1933) Freze, 1965
Synonyms Othinoscolex myzofer Woodland, 1933 Peltidocotyle myzofer (Woodland, 1933) Woodland, 1934
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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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Freze, V. I. 1965. [Proteocephalata in Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles] (In Russian). Osnovy Tsestodologii 5: 538 pp.

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Redescription
Scientific Name Notes -type by designation -Zehnder & de Chambrier (2000) synonymized Woodlandiella myzofera with Peltidocotyle lenha

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03/21/2003 Created Scholz, Kuchta, Healy, Caira
02/18/2010Modified
03/23/2020ModifiedB. Barbeau

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