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Amphipetrovia Spasskii & Spasskaya, 1954
Cyclophyllidea: Hymenolepididae
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Species ID 7186
Order Cyclophyllidea
Family Hymenolepididae
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Genus Amphipetrovia
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Authority Spasskii & Spasskaya, 1954
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Type Species Amphipetrovia biaculeata (Fuhrmann, 1909) Spasskii & Spasskaya, 1954
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Spasskii, A. A. and L. P. Spasskaya. 1954. [Elaboration of the classification of the Hymenolepidae parasitizing birds] (In Russian). Trudy Gel‘mintologicheskoi Laboratorii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 7: 55-119.

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Redescription

Yamaguti, S. 1959. Systema Helminthum. Vol. II. The Cestodes of Vertebrates. Keigaku Publishing House, Tokyo, 860 pp.

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Scientific Name Notes The genus Amphipetrovia was placed to a synonym of Hymenolepis (after Czaplinski & Vaucher, 1994) the independent status of the genus was restored by Makarikov et al. (2015)

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Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
07/08/2010 Created B. Barbeau
10/18/2012Modified
01/11/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
04/12/2016ModifiedN. Arisco
10/04/2016ModifiedA. Makarikov

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