Tapeworm Species Details

Cyathocephalus Kessler, 1868
Spathebothriidea: Acrobothriidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 3730
Order Spathebothriidea
Family Acrobothriidae
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Genus Cyathocephalus
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Authority Kessler, 1868
Taxonomic Status Valid
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Synonyms Acrobothrium Olsson, 1872
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Type Species Cyathocephalus truncatus (Pallas, 1781) Kessler, 1868
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Verified By T. Scholz
Citation(s)

Kessler, K. 1868. Materialy dlia poznaiia onezhskago ozera i obonezhskago kraia preimushestvenno v zoologicheskom otnoshenii. St. Petersburg, Akademii nauk, , 143 pp.

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Kuchta, R.,R. Pearson, T. Scholz, O. Ditrich, and P. D. Olson. 2014. Spathebothriidea: survey of species, scolex and egg morphology, and interrelationships of a non-segmented, relictual tapeworm group (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Folia Parasitologica 61(4): 331–346.

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Scientific Name Notes Kuchta et al. (2014) reviewed the whole order, assessed the phylogenetic relationships of all genera and provided a survey of all valid species with new data on egg and scolex morphology and surface ultrastructure (i.e. microtriches).

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
11/30/-0001 Created K. Catanese
08/20/2014Modified
02/03/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
07/28/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau

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