Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Onchoproteocephalidea > Family Onchobothriidae > Genus Platybothrium

Platybothrium auriculatum Yamaguti, 1952

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Platybothrium*	Linton, 1890	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Yamaguti, S. (1952). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 49. Cestodes of Fishes, II. Acta Medica Okayama. 3 (1): 1–76.
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	Penadés-Suay, J.; Jarque-Rico, A. E.; Tomás, J.; Aznar, F. J. (2022). Determinants of diversity and composition of the tapeworm fauna of blue sharks, Prionace glauca: a geographical and host-specificity analysis. Journal of Helminthology. 96.
additional source	Caira, J. N.; Jensen, K.; Ivanov, V. A. (2017). Onchoproteocephalidea II Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014. 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. 279-304.