Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Onchoproteocephalidea > Family Proteocephalidae > Subfamily Proteocephalinae > Genus Proteocephalus

Proteocephalus exiguus La Rue, 1911

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Proteocephalus*	Weinland, 1858	accepted genus name

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
taxonomy source	Scholz, T.; De Chambrier, A.; Brabec, J.; Knudsen, R.; Blasco-Costa, I. (2024). Redescription of Proteocephalus fallax La Rue, 1911 (Cestoda) and a list of proteocephalid tapeworms of whitefish (Coregonus spp.). Folia Parasitologica. 71.
taxonomy source	Brabec, J.; Rochat, E. C.; Knudsen, R.; Scholz, T.; Blasco-Costa, I. (2023). Mining various genomic resources to resolve old alpha-taxonomy questions: A test of the species hypothesis of the Proteocephalus longicollis species complex (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes) from salmonid fishes. International Journal for Parasitology. 53(4): 197-205.