Tapeworm Species Details

Nybelinia robusta (Linton, 1890) Dollfus, 1930
Trypanorhyncha: Tentaculariidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 5918
Order Trypanorhyncha
Family Tentaculariidae
Subfamily
Genus Nybelinia
Species robusta
Authority (Linton, 1890) Dollfus, 1930
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Heteronybelinia robusta (Linton, 1890) Palm, 1999
Synonyms
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Type Species No
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Citation(s)

Linton, E. 1890. Notes on Entozoa of marine fishes of New England, with descriptions of several new species. Part II. United States Commision of Fish and Fisheries. Part XV. Report of the Commissioner for 1887 15: 718-899.

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Dollfus, R.-P. 1930. Sur les Tetrarhynques (2e Contribution) (Dibothriorhynchus, Sphyriocephala, Tentacularia, Nybelinia). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France 29: 139-216.

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Scientific Name Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
05/21/2010 Created B. Barbeau
05/07/2015Modified
05/29/2017ModifiedK. Herzog
06/26/2017ModifiedK. Jensen
01/10/2022ModifiedB. Barbeau

Type Host

Host Class Elasmobranchii
Host Order Myliobatiformes
Host Family Dasyatidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Trygon
Species centrura
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Bathytoshia
Species centroura
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host stomach and pylorus
Host Notes Carcharhinus limbatus as additional host in Palm (1999). [Mustelus asterias]

Type Locality

Country U.S.A.
Body of Water Atlantic Ocean
Island(s)
City/Region Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Coordinates
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DD Longitude
Additional Localities
Locality Notes South Africa (Palm, 1999)

Specimens

Type Material
Total Number of Type Specimens
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes USNPC 7727 (from Linton, 1924); BMNH 1976.1 1.5.42-43 (in Palm, 1999)
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.