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).