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

Anthocephalum Linton, 1890

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alveobothrium*	Boudaya, Neifar & Euzet, 2018	synonym

Children

Anthocephalum centrurum (Southwell, 1925) Ruhnke, 1994
Anthocephalum grabatum (Boudaya, Neifar & Euzet, 2018) Sakai, Marques & Trevisan, 2025
Anthocephalum gracile (Wedl, 1855) Ruhnke, 1994
Anthocephalum jeancadenati Boudaya, Neifar & Euzet, 2018
Anthocephalum zarzisense (Boudaya, Neifar & Euzet, 2018) Sakai, Marques & Trevisan, 2025

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	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., Reyda, F.B., Marques, F.P.L. (2017). Rhinebothriidea Healy, Caira, Jensen, Webster & Littlewood, 2009. 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. 327-348.
additional source	Herzog, K. S.; Jensen, K. (2018). Five new species of the tapeworm genus Anthocephalum (Rhinebothriidea: Anthocephaliidae) parasitizing a single species of Indo-Pacific stingray, and a revised diagnosis of the genus. Journal of Parasitology.
redescription	Sakai, L. F.; Marques, F. P.; Trevisan, B. (2025). Diversity and phylogenetic position of the amphi-American lineages of the tapeworms of the genus Anthocephalum Linton, 1890 (Rhinebothriidea: Anthocephaliidae). Zootaxa. 5584(2): 151-178.