Tapeworm Species Details

Bothriocephalus cordatus Leuckart, 1863
Diphyllobothriidea: Diphyllobothriidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 7344
Order Diphyllobothriidea
Family Diphyllobothriidae
Subfamily
Genus Bothriocephalus
Species cordatus
Authority Leuckart, 1863
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Diphyllobothrium cordatum (Leuckart, 1863) Gedoelst, 1911
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Citation(s)

Leuckart, R. 1863. Die menschlichen parasiten und die von ihnen herrührenden Krankheiten. Ein Hand- und Lehrbuch für Naturforscher und Aerzte. C. F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig und Heidelberg, 766 pp.

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Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
07/14/2010 Created B. Barbeau
04/04/2014Modified
01/29/2016ModifiedK. Mojica
02/24/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
05/06/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
09/04/2017ModifiedR. Kuchta

Type Host

Host Class Mammalia
Host Order Carnivora
Host Family Canidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus dog
Species
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Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Canis
Species familiaris
Subspecies
Additional Host(s) -from dogs and from a person in Greenland.
Site in Host intestine
Host Notes -type host wrongly reported in Kuchta and Scholz (2017) as Erignathus barbatus

Type Locality

Country Danmark
Body of Water
Island(s) Greenland
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Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.