Tapeworm Species Details

Megathylacus Woodland, 1934
Onchoproteocephalidea I: Proteocephalidae: Corallobothriinae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 2822
Order Onchoproteocephalidea I
Family Proteocephalidae
Subfamily Corallobothriinae
Genus Megathylacus
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Authority Woodland, 1934
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Verified By T. Scholz
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Woodland, W. N. F. 1934. On six new cestodes from Amazon fishes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part 1: 33-44 + Plates I.

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de Chambrier, A., T. Scholz, and R. Kuchta. 2014. Taxonomic status of Woodland's enigmatic tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea) from Amazonian catfishes: back to museum collections. Systematic Parasitology 87(1): 1-19.

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Scientific Name Notes type species: Megathylacus jandia Woodland, 1934

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
03/18/2003 Created Scholz, Kuchta, Healy, Caira
04/14/2011Modified
12/18/2015ModifiedN. Arisco
06/30/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
04/18/2020ModifiedT. Scholz
12/03/2021ModifiedB. Barbeau

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