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Scyphophyllidium Woodland, 1927
Phyllobothriidea: Phyllobothriidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 3560
Order Phyllobothriidea
Family Phyllobothriidae
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Genus Scyphophyllidium
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Authority Woodland, 1927
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Type Species Scyphophyllidium giganteum (Van Beneden, 1858) Woodland, 1927
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Woodland, W. N. F. 1927. A revised classification of the tetraphyllidean Cestoda, with descriptions of some Phyllobothriidae from Plymouth. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part 3 95: 519-548.

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Caira, J. N., K. Jensen, C. Hayes and T. R. Ruhnke. 2020. Insights from new cestodes of the crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Lamniformes: Pseudocarchariidae), prompt expansion of Scyphophyllidium and syonymization of seven phyllobothriidean genera—at last!. Journal of Helminthology (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X20000036): 1–24.

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
09/10/2006 Created J. N. Caira, K. Jensen
04/14/2011Modified
06/06/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
06/13/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
09/29/2020ModifiedB. Barbeau
10/09/2020ModifiedB. Barbeau

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