Tapeworm Species Details

Taenia ovilla Rivolta, 1878
Cyclophyllidea: Anoplocephalidae: Thysanosomatinae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 8144
Order Cyclophyllidea
Family Anoplocephalidae
Subfamily Thysanosomatinae
Genus Taenia
Species ovilla
Authority Rivolta, 1878
Taxonomic Status Synonym
Valid Name Thysaniezia ovilla (Rivolta, 1878) Skryabin, 1926
Synonyms Moniezia ovilla (Rivolta, 1878) Moniez, 1891; Thysanosoma ovilla (Rivolta, 1878) Railliet, 1893; Thysaniezia giardi (Moniez, 1879) Hudson, 1934
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Verified By V. K. Haukisalmi
Citation(s)

Rivolta, S. 1878. Di una nuova specie di tenia nella pecora - Taenia ovilla. Giornale di Anatomia, Fisiologia e Patologia degli Animali 10: 302-308.

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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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Scientific Name Notes For other synonyms, see Spasskii (1951). It is disputed whether the valid name for this species is Thysaniezia ovilla or T. giardi.

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
01/16/2011 Created V. K. Haukisalmi
09/02/2014Modified
05/17/2016ModifiedB. Barbeau
04/21/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
04/25/2021ModifiedV. Haukisalmi
02/07/2022ModifiedV. Haukisalmi

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Host Class Mammalia
Host Order Artiodactyla
Host Family Bovidae (Caprinae)
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