Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Phyllobothriidea > Family Phyllobothriidae > Genus Clistobothrium

Clistobothrium tumidum (Linton, 1922) Ruhnke, 1993

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clistobothrium*	Dailey & Vogelbein, 1990	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Phyllobothrium tumidum*	Linton, 1922	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Ruhnke, T. R., Caira, J. N., Pickering, M. (2017). Phyllobothriidea Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014. 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 Publication No. 25, KS, USA, pp. 305-326.
additional source	Caira, J. N.; Jensen, K.; Pickering, M.; Ruhnke, T. R.; Gallagher, K. A. (2020). Intrigue surrounding the life-cycles of species of Clistobothrium (Cestoda: Phyllobothriidea) parasitising large pelagic sharks. International Journal for Parasitology. 50(13): 1043-1055.