Tapeworm Species Details

Rhinebothrium rankini Baer, 1948
Rhinebothriidea: Rhinebothriidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 3418
Order Rhinebothriidea
Family Rhinebothriidae
Subfamily
Genus Rhinebothrium
Species rankini
Authority Baer, 1948
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Scalithrium rankini (Baer, 1948) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003
Synonyms Echeneibothrium rankini (Baer, 1948) Young, 1956
Genus Record No
Type Species No
Verified No
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Citation(s)

Baer, J. G. 1948. Contributions a l’étude des cestodes des sélaciens. I-IV. Bulletin de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 71: 63-122.

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Ball, D., L. Neifar, and L. Euzet. 2003. Proposition de Scalithrium n. gen. (Cestoda, Tetraphyllidea) avec comme espèce-type Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) n. comb. parasite de Dasyatis pastinaca (Elasmobranchii, Dasyatidae). Parasite 10: 31-37.

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Redescription

Williams, H. H. 1958. Some Tetraphyllidea (Cestoda) from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 65: 867-878.

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Scientific Name Notes Baer appears to have been inconsistent with the numbering of this species; in the tex t and in the figure captions he referrs to the segment as figure 36 but we believe that the segment of R. rankini ishould be figure 37; Williams, 1958 "redescribed" and re-drew this species.

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
09/09/2006 Created K. Jensen , R. Tracy
03/12/2015Modified
06/07/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
10/09/2015ModifiedB. Barbeau
11/04/2015ModifiedF. Marques
01/15/2016ModifiedJ. Caira
01/15/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
05/04/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau

Type Host

Host Class
Host Order Myliobatiformes
Host Family Dasyatidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Dasyatis
Species centrura
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Dasyatis
Species centroura
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host spiral intestine
Host Notes

Type Locality

Country U.S.A.
Body of Water
Island(s)
City/Region Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Coordinates
DD Latitude
DD Longitude
Additional Localities
Locality Notes

Specimens

Type Material
Total Number of Type Specimens 1
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.