Tapeworm Species Details

Hepatoxylon megacephalum (Rudolphi, 1819) Dollfus, 1942
Trypanorhyncha: Sphyriocephalidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 4828
Order Trypanorhyncha
Family Sphyriocephalidae
Subfamily
Genus Hepatoxylon
Species megacephalum
Authority (Rudolphi, 1819) Dollfus, 1942
Taxonomic Status Valid
Valid Name
Synonyms Tetrarhynchus megacephalus Rudolphi, 1819; Tetrarhynchus scyllium canicula Wagener, 1854
Genus Record No
Type Species No
Verified Yes
Verified By I. Beveridge
Citation(s)

Rudolphi, C. A. 1819. Entozoorum synopsis, cui accedunt mantissa duplex et indices locupletissimi. Sumtibus Augusti Rücker, Berolini (Berlin), 811 pp.

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Dollfus, R.-P. 1942. Études critiques sur les tétrarhynques du Muséum de Paris. Archives du Muséum National d‘Histoire Naturelle, 6. Série 19: 7-466.

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Redescription
Scientific Name Notes Placed in family Hepatoxylidae by Dollfus (1942) and Campbell & Beveridge (1994)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
11/30/-0001 Created I. Beveridge
03/12/2013Modified
06/01/2015ModifiedI. Beveridge
06/24/2015ModifiedB. Barbeau
06/07/2017ModifiedK. Herzog
07/27/2017ModifiedK. Jensen

Type Host

Host Class Elasmobranchii
Host Order Carcharhiniformes
Host Family Scyliorhinidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Squalus
Species stellaris
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Scyliorhinus
Species stellaris
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host dorsal wall of abdomen
Host Notes Numerous additional hosts. See Dollfus (1942), Palm (2004)

Type Locality

Country Italy
Body of Water Mediterranean Sea
Island(s)
City/Region Naples
Coordinates
DD Latitude
DD Longitude
Additional Localities
Locality Notes See Dollfus (1942), Palm (2004). Cosmopolitan.

Specimens

Type Material Berlin Museum 1695
Total Number of Type Specimens
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes Indication of type specimen in Pintner (1930), p. 470, cited in Dollfus (1942, p. 114)
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.