Tapeworm Species Details

Opossumia Spasskii, 1951
Cyclophyllidea: Anoplocephalidae: Linstowiinae
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Species ID 6583
Order Cyclophyllidea
Family Anoplocephalidae
Subfamily Linstowiinae
Genus Opossumia
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Authority Spasskii, 1951
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Mathevotaenia Akhumyan, 1946
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Type Species Linstowia (Opossumia) bivittata (Janicki, 1904) Spasskii, 1951
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Verified By V. K. Haukisalmi
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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.

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Spasskii, A. A. and M. L. Buga. 2002. [On the validity of genera Opossumia, Markewitschitaenia and subfamily Inversiinae (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea)] O validnosti rodov Opossumia, Markewitschitaenia i podsemeijstva Inversiinae (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea). Vestnik Zoologii 36: 65-69.

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Scientific Name Notes Created as a subgenus of Linstowia by Spasskii (1951).

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06/24/2010 Created V. K. Haukisalmi
08/31/2014Modified
04/23/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi

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