Tapeworm Species Details

Prochristianella pastinaca
Trypanorhyncha: Eutetrarhynchidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 5920
Order Trypanorhyncha
Family Eutetrarhynchidae
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Genus Prochristianella
Species pastinaca
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Taxonomic Status Lapsus calami (?)
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Citation(s)

Schmidt, G. D. 1986. Handbook of tapeworm identification. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 675 pp.

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Scientific Name Notes This name, Prochristianella pastinaca, is listed as the type species of the genus Prochristianella by Schmidt (1986, pg. 59) in his key to tapeworm genera. No information (other than that transcribed here about host and locality) or citation is given. However, as Prochristianella papillifer is the true type species of the genus, and the type host and type locality of P. papillifer are identical to those provided for P. pastinaca by Schmidt (1986) (i.e., from Upogebia stellate from France), it seems likely that Schmidt's listing of "pastinaca" as the specific epithet of the type species of the genus Prochristianella was an accident or a mistake, hence its designation here as "Lapsus calami (?)"

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
05/21/2010 Created B. Barbeau
05/07/2015Modified
11/21/2017ModifiedK. Herzog

Type Host

Host Class Malacostraca
Host Order Decapoda
Host Family Upogebiidae
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Genus Upogebia
Species stelate
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Genus Upogebia
Species stellate
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Country France
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