Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Trypanorhyncha > Suborder Trypanobatoida > Superfamily Tentacularioidea > Family Sphyriocephalidae > Genus Hepatoxylon

Hepatoxylon megacephalum (Rudolphi, 1819) Dollfus, 1942

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hepatoxylon*	Bosc, 1811	accepted genus name
*Dibothriorhynchus*	Blainville, 1828	synonym

Species group names

*Tetrarhynchus megacephalus*	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	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.