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Myzocephalus Shipley & Hornell, 1906
Tetraphyllidea: Rhoptrobothriidae
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Species ID 3576
Order Tetraphyllidea
Family Rhoptrobothriidae
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Genus Myzocephalus
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Authority Shipley & Hornell, 1906
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Myzophyllobothrium Shipley & Hornell, 1906
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Type Species Myzocephalus narinari Shipley & Hornell, 1906
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Shipley, A. E. and J. Hornell. 1906. Report on the cestode and nematode parasites from the marine fishes of Ceylon. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar (Herdman), Part 5 5: 43-96.

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Scientific Name Notes -synonymy by Jensen et al. (2021) -Jensen and Caira (2006) suggested that the metascolex structures of Myzocephalus, along with those of Rhoptrobothrium Shipley and Hornell, 1906 and Myzophyllobothrium Shipley and Hornell, 1906 were cephalic peduncle extensions they termed remi. Thus, they considered these morphological extensions to be non-homologous to those of Thysanocephalum. Ruhnke (2011) considered this genus incertae sedis with respect to the Phyllobothriidae.

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
09/10/2006 Created
08/03/2012Modified
06/06/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
06/08/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
01/13/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
08/07/2017ModifiedJ. Caira
05/31/2022ModifiedR. Kuchta

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