MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Bothriocephalidea

WoRMS taxon details

Bothriocephalidea

AphiaID

515785 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:515785)

Classification

Authority

Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Eucestoda

Direct children (5)

Ordering

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Family Bothriocephalidae Blanchard, 1849
Family Echinophallidae Schumacher, 1914
Family Triaenophoridae Lönnberg, 1889
Family Parabothriocephalidae Yamaguti, 1934 accepted as Echinophallidae Schumacher, 1914 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Family Philobythiidae Campbell, 1977 accepted as Triaenophoridae Lönnberg, 1889

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh

Original description

Kuchta, R.; Scholz, T.; Brabec, J.; Bray, R. (2008). Suppression of the tapeworm order Pseudophyllidea (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda) and the proposal of two new orders, Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea. International Journal for Parasitology. 38(1): 49-55., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.08.005
page(s): 50 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Bothriocephalidea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=515785 on 2025-04-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-10 06:16:04Z

created

Bray, Rod

2018-10-15 14:41:01Z

changed

Artois, Tom

2019-01-22 21:17:12Z

changed

Artois, Tom

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Kuchta, R.; Scholz, T.; Brabec, J.; Bray, R. (2008). Suppression of the tapeworm order Pseudophyllidea (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda) and the proposal of two new orders, Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea. International Journal for Parasitology. 38(1): 49-55., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.08.005
page(s): 50 [details]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru. Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. Neotropical Helminthology. 10(2), jul-dic: 301-375. [details] Available for editors

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Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bothriocephalidea)
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