Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Trypanorhyncha > Suborder Trypanoselachoida > Superfamily Otobothrioidea > Family Otobothriidae > Genus Otobothrium

Otobothrium cysticum (Mayer, 1842)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Otobothrium*	Linton, 1891	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Tetrarhynchus cysticus*	Mayer, 1842	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	Neitemeier-Duventester, X.; Bick, A.; Theisen, S.; Palm, H. W. (2022). Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) as a new tool for morphological characterisation of both newly collected and museum voucher specimens of the Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Folia Parasitologica. 69.
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.