Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora

Eucestoda

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bothriocephalidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008
Caryophyllidea van Beneden in Carus, 1863
Cyclophyllidea van Beneden in Braun, 1900
Diphyllidea Van Beneden in Carus, 1863
Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008
Eucestoda incertae sedis
Lecanicephalidea Hyman, 1951
Onchoproteocephalidea Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014
Phyllobothriidea Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014
Rhinebothriidea Healy, Caira, Jensen, Webster & Littlewood, 2009
Spathebothriidea Wardle & McLeod, 1952
Tetrabothriidea
Tetraphyllidea
Trypanorhyncha

Literature

basis of record

Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 146-149

additional source

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Eucestoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104909

Taxonomic Coordinator. Eucestoda. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/33e4e8a0-3789-4150-aa18-acf951814cbf

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104909
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:16181

Last modified

2019-01-22 by Taxonomic Coordinator & by Tom Artois

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