Tapeworm Species Details

Scalithrium shipleyi (Southwell, 1912) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003
Rhinebothriidea: Anthocephaliidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 5754
Order Rhinebothriidea
Family Anthocephaliidae
Subfamily
Genus Scalithrium
Species shipleyi
Authority (Southwell, 1912) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Barbeaucestus shipleyi (Southwell, 1912) Caira, Healy, Marques & Jensen, 2017
Synonyms
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Type Species No
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Citation(s)

Southwell, T. 1912. A description of ten new species of cestode parasites from marine fishes of Ceylon, with notes on other cestodes from the same region. Ceylon Marine Biological Report 1: 259-278.

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Ball, D., L. Neifar, and L. Euzet. 2003. Proposition de Scalithrium n. gen. (Cestoda, Tetraphyllidea) avec comme espèce-type Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) n. comb. parasite de Dasyatis pastinaca (Elasmobranchii, Dasyatidae). Parasite 10: 31-37.

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Redescription
Scientific Name Notes This is New Genus 2 of Healy et al. (2009).

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
10/22/2009 Created B. Barbeau
01/29/2015Modified
06/07/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
06/08/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
10/21/2015ModifiedB. Barbeau
11/04/2015ModifiedF. Marques
01/15/2016ModifiedJ. Caira
08/20/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
05/10/2017ModifiedK. Jensen

Type Host

Host Class
Host Order Myliobatiformes
Host Family Dasyatidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Trygon
Species kuhli
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Neotrygon
Species kuhlii?
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host spiral intestine
Host Notes Clade 8 of Puckeridge et al. (2013) & Clade I of Borsa et al. (2016) according to Caira et al. (2017)

Type Locality

Country Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
Body of Water
Island(s)
City/Region
Coordinates
DD Latitude
DD Longitude
Additional Localities
Locality Notes

Specimens

Type Material BMNH No. 1977.11.1.116–121A (neotype; Caira et al., 2017)
Total Number of Type Specimens 70
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.