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

Diphyllobothriidae Lühe, 1910

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dibothriocephalus Lühe, 1899
Digramma Cholodkowsky, 1915
Diphyllobothrium Cobbold, 1858
Ligula Bloch, 1782
Plicobothrium Rausch & Margolis, 1969
Schistocephalus Creplin, 1829
Spirometra Faust, Campbell & Kellogg, 1929

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	Kuchta, R., Scholz, T. (2017). Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008. In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. J.N. Caira & K. Jensen (eds). University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publucation No. 25, Lawrence, KS USA, pp. 167-189.