Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Diphyllidea > Family Echinobothriidae > Genus Echinobothrium

Echinobothrium harfordi McVicar, 1976

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echinobothrium*	Van Beneden, 1849	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	McVicar, A. H. (1976). Echinobothrium harfordi sp. nov. (Cestoda: Diphyllidae) from Raja naevus in the North Sea and English Channel. Journal of Helminthology. 50(01): 31-38.
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	Caira, J. N.; Ivanov, V. A., Jensen, K., Marques, F. P. L. (2017). Diphyllidea van Beneden in Carus, 1863. 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. 149-166.