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

Taenia Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hydatis*	Blumenbach, 1797	synonym

Children

Taenia brauni Setti, 1897
Taenia cervi Christiansen, 1931
Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800)
Taenia endothoracica (Kirschenblatt, 1948)
Taenia hydatigena Pallas, 1766
Taenia krabbei Moniez, 1879
Taenia krepkogorski (Schulz & Landa, 1934)
Taenia laticollis Rudolphi, 1819
Taenia martis (Zeder, 1803)
Taenia multiceps Leske, 1780
Taenia mustelae Gmelin, 1790
Taenia ovis (Cobbold, 1869)
Taenia parenchymatosa Pushmenkov, 1945
Taenia parva Baer, 1924
Taenia parviuncinata Kirschenblatt, 1939
Taenia pisiformis (Bloch, 1780)
Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856
Taenia rileyi Loewen, 1929
Taenia saginata Goeze, 1782
Taenia secunda Olsson, 1893
Taenia serialis (Gervais, 1847)
Taenia smythi (Johri, 1957)
Taenia solium Linnaeus, 1758
Taenia taeniaeformis (Batsch, 1786)

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
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