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Pillersium Southwell, 1927
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 3554
Order Rhinebothriidea
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Genus Pillersium
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Authority Southwell, 1927
Taxonomic Status Incertae sedis
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Type Species Pillersium owenium Southwell, 1927
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Southwell, T. 1927. On a collection of cestodes from marine fishes of Ceylon and India. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 21: 351-373.

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Scientific Name Notes The genus is known only from scolices. Southwell (1927) described the scolex as bearing only a pair of bothridia, but examination of his scolex illustration indicates that the bothridia may be paired and fused dorsoventrally (see Ruhnke, 2011).

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
09/10/2006 Created T. R. Ruhnke
02/05/2015Modified
06/06/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
06/13/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
01/15/2016ModifiedK. Jensen

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