Tapeworm Species Details

Diphyllobothrium ponticum Delyamure, 1971
Diphyllobothriidea: Diphyllobothriidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 7478
Order Diphyllobothriidea
Family Diphyllobothriidae
Subfamily
Genus Diphyllobothrium
Species ponticum
Authority Delyamure, 1971
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Diphyllobothrium stemmacephalum Cobbold, 1858
Synonyms
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Citation(s)

Delyamure, S. L. 1971. Diphyllobothrium ponticum nov. sp., a new diphyllobothriid from Tursiopus truncatus. In Sbornik Rabot po Gelmintologii Posvyashchen 90. letiya so dnya Rozhdeniya Akademika K.I. Skrjabina, . Izdateľstvo Kolos, Moscow, 123–125 pp.

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Redescription
Scientific Name Notes -synonymized by Delyamure et al. (1985)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
07/20/2010 Created B. Barbeau
08/02/2012Modified
05/11/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
11/23/2016ModifiedR. Kuchta
08/04/2017ModifiedR. Kuchta
08/08/2017ModifiedR. Kuchta
08/14/2017ModifiedR. Kuchta

Type Host

Host Class Mammalia
Host Order Artiodactyla
Host Family Delphinidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Tursiops
Species truncatus
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Tursiops
Species truncatus
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host intestine
Host Notes - collected in 1941 (host No. 12)

Type Locality

Country Ukraine
Body of Water Black Sea
Island(s)
City/Region near to Kherson
Coordinates
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DD Longitude
Additional Localities
Locality Notes

Specimens

Type Material - not mentioned
Total Number of Type Specimens 5 tapeworms
Voucher Material
Specimen Notes
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.