Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Bothriocephalidea > Family Triaenophoridae > Genus Anchistrocephalus

Anchistrocephalus microcephalus (Rudolphi, 1819)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anchistrocephalus*	Monticelli, 1890	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Bothriocephalus microcephalus*	Rudolphi, 1819	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	Santoro, M., M. Palomba, S. Mattiucci, D. Osca & F. Crocetta. (2020). New Parasite Records for the Sunfish Mola mola in the Mediterranean Sea and Their Potential Use as Biological Tags for Long-Distance Host Migration. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 7:1-8.
additional source	Kuchta, R., Scholz, T. (2017). Bothriocephalidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008. In Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from ther Bowels of the Earth. J.N. Caira, K. Jensen (eds) University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publication No. 25, Lawrence, KS, USA, pp. 29-45.
additional source	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
redescription	Linton, E. (1924). Gyrocotyle plana sp. nov. with notes on South African cestodes of fishes. Report. Union of South Africa Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey For the year 1932. 3, 1–27.