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Tetrarhynchus heptanchi Vaullegeard, 1899
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 5245
Order Trypanorhyncha
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Genus Tetrarhynchus
Species heptanchi
Authority Vaullegeard, 1899
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Grillotia heptanchi (Vaullegeard, 1899) Dollfus, 1942
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Vaullegeard, A. 1899. Recherches sur les Tétrarhynques. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie XIX(3): 187-376.

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Redescription
Scientific Name Notes original description on Vaullegeard (1899) pg. 344

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
11/30/-0001 Created K. Catanese
02/18/2010Modified
06/07/2017ModifiedK. Herzog
07/30/2020ModifiedP. Lopez Dineen

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Host Notes Originally described from larvae in the tissue of presumably a species of Lepidopus in the stomach of "Heptanchus cinereus". Beveridge & Campbell (2013) provide the following other host records in their redescription: Hexanchus griseus; Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis; Molva dypterygia. See Bates (199) and Palm (2004) for other host records.

Type Locality

Country Italy
Body of Water Mediterranean Sea, Northeast Atlantic
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City/Region Naples
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Specimen Notes Material examined by Campbell & Beveridge (2013) for their redescription is as follows: Adults: from Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre), 8 specimens (identified as Grillotia institata), Naples, Italy, coll. F. Zschokke, 17.i.1886 (MHNG 37258, 37263, 40835); 2 specimens (identified as Tentacularia megabothridia), Puget Sound, USA, coll. J. E. Lynch, 1937 (MHNG 3573.2); 2 slides of gravid segments, Trieste, Italy, coll. T. Pintner (NMV 3530-1). Plerocerci: 5 specimens, from body muscles, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (Walbaum) (= Zeugopterus megastoma), Marche de Paris (MNHN Bd 19-79); 2 specimens, from muscle, Molva dypterygia (Pennant), ‘‘S.S.Thalassa’’ stn B248 (MNHN Bd 19:77-79).
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.