Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata

Cestoda

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cestodaria
Nephroposticophora

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: lintwormen

English: cestodes; tapeworms sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Bandwürmer; Cestoden sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 条虫綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: bandmaskar

Literature

additional source	Waeschenbach, A.; Webster, B. L.; Bray, R. A.; Littlewood, D. (2007). Added resolution among ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with complete small and large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45(1): 311-325.
identification resource	Chervy, L. (2024). Manual for the study of tapeworms (Cestoda) parasitic in ray-finned fish, amphibians and reptiles. Folia Parasitologica. 71.
identification resource	Jones, A., Bray, R.A., Khalil, L.F. (1994). Key to the orders of the Cestoda. In: Khalil, L.F., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. [Editors]. Keys to the cestode parasites of vertebrates. Wallingford: CAB International, 1-2.