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

Diphyllobothrium Cobbold, 1858

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diplogonoporus*	Lönnberg, 1892	synonym

Children

Diphyllobothrium balaenopterae (Lönnberg, 1892) Waeschenbach, Brabec, Scholz, Littlewood & Kuchta, 2017
Diphyllobothrium cordatum (Leuckart, 1863) Gedoelst, 1911
Diphyllobothrium elegans (Krabbe, 1865) Meggitt, 1924
Diphyllobothrium fuhrmanni Hsu, 1935
Diphyllobothrium lanceolatum (Krabbe, 1865) Cooper, 1921
Diphyllobothrium medium (Fahmy, 1954)
Diphyllobothrium norvegicum Vik, 1957
Diphyllobothrium osmeri (von Linstow, 1878)
Diphyllobothrium polyrugosum Delyamure & Skrjabin, 1966
Diphyllobothrium roemeri (Zschokke, 1903)
Diphyllobothrium schistochilus (Germanos, 1895) Cooper, 1921
Diphyllobothrium stemmacephalum Cobbold, 1858
Diphyllobothrium vogeli Kuhlow, 1953

Literature

original description	Cobbold, T. S. (1858). Observations on Entozoa, with notices of several new species, including an account of two experiments in regard to the breeding of Taenia serrata and T. cucumerina. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 22: 155-172.
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
status source	Waeschenbach, A., J. Brabec, T. Scholz, D.T. Littlewood & R. Kuchta. (2017). The catholic taste of broad tapeworms – multiple routes to human infection. International Journal for Parasitology. 47(13):831-843.
identification resource	Andersen, K. I.; Gibson, D. I. (1989). A key to three species of larval Diphyllobothrium Cobbold, 1858 (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) occurring in European and North American freshwater fishes. Systematic Parasitology. 13(1): 3-9.