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

Ligula Bloch, 1782

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ligula colymbi Zeder, 1803
Ligula digramma Creplin, 1839
Ligula intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Gmelin, 1790
Ligula monogramma Creplin, 1839
Ligula pavlovskii Dubinina, 1959

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.