Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth

0485421 - BC 2018 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Kuchta, Roman - Scholz, Tomáš
Spathebothriidea Wardle & McLeod, 1952.
Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, 2017 - (Caira, J.; Jensen, K.), s. 349-356. ISBN 978-3-319-46342-1
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GBP505/12/G112
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : overview * tapeworms * vertebrate
OECD category: Zoology

A total of 15 nominal species and seven nominal genera have been established since 1781 when the first species, Taenia truncata Pallas, 1781 (now Cyathocephalus truncatus [Pallas, 1781] Kessler, 1868), was described by Pallas (1781). The taxonomy and systematics of the group were reviewed by Nybelin (1922), Wardle and McLeod (1952), Burt and Sandeman (1969, 1974), Gibson (1994), and Protasova and Roitman (1995). Over time, two different genus-level classification schemes have been proposed. The broader of the two concepts, which was adopted by Gibson (1994) and Protasova and Roitman (1995), recognized four or five genera as valid. Under the narrower concept, which was embraced by Burt and Sandeman (1969, 1974), only Bothrimonus Duvernoy, 1842 (housing all forms with an anterior sucker-like attachment organ) and Spathebothrium Linton, 1922 (housing forms that lack an apical attachment organ) were considered to be valid. The members of this taxon have been considered as a subgroup within the order Pseudophyllidea by some authors (e.g., Nybelin, 1922, Joyeux and Baer, 1961, Dubinina, 1987), but as the independent order Spathebothriidea by others (e.g., Wardle and McLeod, 1952, Gibson, 1994).
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