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

Scalithrium Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003

Literature

original description

Ball, D.; Neifar, L.; Euzet, L. (2003). Proposition de Scalithrium n. gen. (Cestoda, Tetraphyllidea) avec comme espèce-type Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) n. comb. parasite de Dasyatis pastinaca (Elasmsobranchii, Dasyatidae). Parasite. 10(1): 31-37.

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.

redescription

Volin, L. I.; Caira, J. N.; Bueno, V. M. (2024). Two New Species of Scalithrium (Cestoda: Rhinebothriidea) from Rhinopristiform Elasmobranchs with a Revised Generic Diagnosis Based on Refined Generic Membership. Comparative Parasitology. 91(2).

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Scalithrium Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415957

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Occurrence

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2024-09-29 by David Gibson

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