Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Diphyllobothriidea > Family Diphyllobothriidae > Genus Diphyllobothrium

Diphyllobothrium stemmacephalum Cobbold, 1858

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diphyllobothrium*	Cobbold, 1858	accepted genus name
*Diplogonoporus*	Lönnberg, 1892	synonym

Species group names

*Diphyllobothrium ponticum*	Delyamure, 1971	synonym

Literature

original description	Cobbold, T. S. (1858). Observations on Entozoa, with notices of several new species, including an account of two experiments in regard to the breeding of Taenia serrata and T. cucumerina. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 22: 155-172.
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	Jensen, K. 2009. Cestoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 487–522 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Kuchta, R., Scholz, T. (2017). Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008. 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 Publucation No. 25, Lawrence, KS USA, pp. 167-189.
additional source	Gibson, D.I., Harris, E.A., Bray, R.A., Jepson, P.P., Kuiken, T., Baker, J.R., Simpson, V.R. (1998). A survey of the helminth parasites of cetaceans stranded on the coast of England and Wales during the period 1990-1994. Journal of Zoology. London. 244, 563-574.