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

Schistocephalus Creplin, 1829

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Schistocephalus fahmi Gagarin, Chertkova & Vshchivtsev, 1966
Schistocephalus nemachili Dubinina, 1959
Schistocephalus pungitii Dubinina, 1959
Schistocephalus solidus (Müller, 1776) Steenstrup, 1857

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.
additional source	Heins, D. C.; Moody, K. N.; Arostegui, M. C.; Harmon, B. S.; Blum, M. J.; Quinn, T. P. (2024). Distinct evolutionary lineages of Schistocephalus parasites infecting co-occurring sculpin and stickleback fishes in Alaska. Parasitology. 1-8.