Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Rhinebothriidea > Family Echeneibothriidae > Genus Echeneibothrium

Echeneibothrium fallax (Van Beneden, 1870)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echeneibothrium*	Van Beneden, 1849	accepted genus name
*Discobothrium*	Van Beneden, 1871	synonym

Species group names

*Phyllobothrium fallax*	Van Beneden, 1871	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	Ruhnke, T.R., Reyda, F.B., Marques, F.P.L. (2017). Rhinebothriidea Healy, Caira, Jensen, Webster & Littlewood, 2009. 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. 327-348.