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

Bothriocephalidae Blanchard, 1849

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bothriocephalus Rudolphi, 1808
Bothriocestus Scholz, Choudhury & Reyda, 2023
Clestobothrium Lühe, 1899
Ptychobothrium Lönnberg, 1889

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).
identification resource	Kuchta, R.; Burianova, A.; Jirků, M.; de Chambrier, A.; Oros, M.; Brabec, J.; Scholz, T. (2012). Bothriocephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) of freshwater fish in Africa, including erection of Kirstenella n. gen. and description of Tetracampos martinae n. sp. Zootaxa. 3309, 1-35.