Tapeworm Species Details

Anoplocephala rhopalocephala (Riehm, 1881) Blanchard, 1891
Cyclophyllidea: Anoplocephalidae: Anoplocephalinae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 6469
Order Cyclophyllidea
Family Anoplocephalidae
Subfamily Anoplocephalinae
Genus Anoplocephala
Species rhopalocephala
Authority (Riehm, 1881) Blanchard, 1891
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Andrya rhopalocephala (Riehm, 1881) Railliet, 1893
Synonyms Taenia rhopalocephala Riehm, 1881
Genus Record No
Type Species No
Verified Yes
Verified By V. K. Haukisalmi
Citation(s)

Riehm, G. 1881. Untersuchungen an der Bandwürmern der Hasen und Kanichen. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Originalabhandlungen und Berichte 54: 200.

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Blanchard, R. 1891. Notices helminthologiques (deuxième série). Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 4: 420-466.

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Redescription

Riehm, G. 1881. Studien an Cestoden. Zeitscrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Originalabhandlungen und Berichte 54: 545-610.

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Scientific Name Notes Additional possible synonyms listed by Spasskii (1951). A more complete redescription: Spasskii, A. A. 1951. Anoplocefalyaty - lentochnye gel'minty domashnyh i dikih zhivotnyh [Anoplocephalate tapeworms of domestic and wild animals]. Osnovy Cestodologii, Vol. 1. K. I. Skrjabin (ed). Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 735 pp.

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
06/13/2010 Created V. K. Haukisalmi
06/02/2014Modified
08/25/2017ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
04/11/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
04/12/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
04/20/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
02/25/2022ModifiedV. Haukisalmi

Type Host

Host Class Mammalia
Host Order Lagomorpha
Host Family Leporidae
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Type Host
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Genus Lepus
Species timidus
Subspecies
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Host Notes Host: "hase".

Type Locality

Country Germany
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City/Region Saxony
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Specimens

Type Material Syntypes: originally, USNPC 1379 (presently, USNM 1316454); originally, USNPC 1484 (presently, USNM 1316554); originally, USNPC 1485 (presently USNM 1316555).
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Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.