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

Chimaerocestos Williams & Bray, 1984

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chimaerocestos prudhoei Williams & Bray, 1984

Literature

original description	Williams, H. H.; Bray, R. A. (1984). Chimaerocestos prudhoei gen. et sp. nov., representing a new family of tetraphyllideans and the first record of strobilate tapeworms from a holocephalan. Parasitology. 88(1): 105-116.
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	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.