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 macrocephalus (Creplin, 1825) Nufer, 1905

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Proteocephalus*	Weinland, 1858	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Taenia macrocephalus*	Creplin, 1825	objective synonym
*Taenia macrocephala*	Creplin, 1825	synonym

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	Özer, A. (2021). Checklist of Marine, Freshwater, and Aquarium Fish Parasites in Turkey. Turkish Marine Research Foundation (TUDAV) Publication No: 62, Istanbul, Turkey,. 311 pp.
additional source	de Chambrier, A.; Scholz, T.; Mariaux, J.; Kuchta, R. (2017). Onchoproteocephalidea I Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014. In: Caira, J. N.; Jensen, K. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. The University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication No. 25. Lawrence, Kansas. pp. 251-277.
taxonomy source	Scholz, T.; Choudhury, A.; Reyda, F. (2021). The Proteocephalus species-aggregate (Cestoda) in cyprinoids, pike, eel, smelt and cavefish of the Nearctic region (North America): diversity, host associations and distribution. Systematic Parasitology.