Tapeworm Species Details

Tetrabothrium norvegicum Olsson, 1868
Trypanorhyncha: Aporhynchidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 5229
Order Trypanorhyncha
Family Aporhynchidae
Subfamily
Genus Tetrabothrium
Species norvegicum
Authority Olsson, 1868
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Aporhynchus norvegicus (Olsson, 1868) Nybelin, 1918
Synonyms
Genus Record No
Type Species No
Verified Yes
Verified By I. Beveridge
Citation(s)

Olsson, P. 1867-1868. Entozoa, iakttagna hos Skandinaviska hafsfiskar. I. Platyelminthes. Lunds Universitatis Årsskrift Mathematik och Naturvetenskap 4(8): 64 pp., pls. 3-5.

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Scientific Name Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
11/30/-0001 Created B. Barbeau, K. Catanese
02/20/2013Modified
05/29/2015ModifiedI. Beveridge
05/31/2017ModifiedK. Herzog

Type Host

Host Class Elasmobranchii
Host Order Squaliformes
Host Family Etmopteridae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Spinax
Species niger
Subspecies
Type Host
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Genus Etmopterus
Species spinax
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Additional Host(s)
Site in Host spiral intestine
Host Notes Olsson (1868) refers to the type host of Tetrabothrium norvegicum as both "Spinax niger" (in the original description) as well as "Spinacis nigri" (in the figure caption for the original line drawings of T. norvegicum). In moving T. norvegicum to the genus Aporhynchus, Nybelin (1918) refers to the type host as "Etmopterus spinax". In his redescription of the species, Beveridge (1990) also refers to the type host as Etomopterus spinax, but provides a third synonym by adding "(=Spinax spinax)".

Type Locality

Country Norway
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Additional Localities
Locality Notes Also described from Ireland (Rees, 1941), New Hebrides, and Lisbon (Dollfus, 1942) (as reported in Beveridge [1990]).

Specimens

Type Material [not given]
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Specimen Notes In his revision of the species, Beveridge (1990) lists the following specimens as material he examined: BMNH 1976.4.14.3-4; 1986.8.5.1; MNHN BD 28. For additional information on re-discovered cotypes and a new line drawing of A. norvegicus, see Noever et al. (2010)
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.